- Uluslararası Eğitim Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi
- Vol: 3 Issue: 3
- SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF PRESCHOOL TEACHER CANDIDATES
SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF PRESCHOOL TEACHER CANDIDATES
Authors : Tuğçe Karakaş, Özlem Afacan
Pages : 88-102
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Publication Date : 2017-12-31
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This study was conducted to determine the level of scientific creativity of preschool teacher candidates and to investigate whether there is a meaningful difference between the scientific creativity of the teacher candidates and some demographic characteristics. The study group of the research group constitutes 149 teacher candidates who are studying at Ahi Evran University Faculty of Education Elementary Education Department Preschool Education Department in Kırşehir. The "Scientific Creativity Test (BYT)" developed by Hu and Adey (2002) and adapted to Turkish by Kadayıfçı (2008) used data collection tool in the research. Moreover, "Personal Information Form" has been applied to determine personal characteristics. In the analysis of the data, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum values of average scores of teacher candidates taken to determine scientific creativity levels were calculated and t-test and ANOVA were used to determine differences between groups. In research findings, when the scientific creativity of teacher candidates is examined, it is concluded that scientific creativity levels are moderate. Besides this, the average scores of the scientific creativity of the teacher candidates and with respect to the income monthly in level of the family income have been reached to significant difference.Keywords : Creativity, Scientific Creativity, Scientific Creativity Test, Preschool Education