Anadolu Öğretmen Dergisi
Yazarlar: Yasemin HACIOĞLU, Çağla KUTRU
Konular:Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları
DOI:10.35346/aod.937208
Anahtar Kelimeler:Science education,Creativity,21st skills
Özet: Creative thinking is one of the most important skills that individuals are expected to have in order to increase the welfare level of countries by contributing to scientific and technological developments in the twenty-first century. One of the main purposes of science education is to develop creative thinking skills and a lot of effort is spent for this. In order to reveal the results of this effort, in this study, it is aimed to examine the theses on creative thinking skills in the field of science education in Turkey. The aims, working groups, methods, findings and results of 72 master's or doctoral theses, which were examined by the document review method, were analyzed and evaluated by the content analysis method. Although theses conducted between 2002-2021 were carried out at all levels from pre-school to university, it is seen that they were mostly conducted with seventh grade and science teacher candidates. The aims of theses are mostly to examine the effect of a science teaching method on creative thinking skills, to determine its relationship with factors that may affect creativity, or to reveal a situation related to creativity. It has been found that more quantitative and mixed method researches are carried out to achieve these goals, while Torrance and Scientific Creativity Tests are mostly used as measurement tools. It has been concluded that the contemporary teaching methods tried in the theses generally have a positive effect on the development of creative thinking skills, there are no consistent results regarding the relationship of creativity with different variables and the situation evaluations about creativity show different results.