Chinese Journal of Science Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of cooperative learning to creativity of undergraduate project work. The instruments of this study were consisted of the verbal and figural forms of Torrance Test of Creative Thinkin g, the idea-design creativity test and the questionnaire of satisfaction of the cooperative learning compiled by the authors. The experimental design for this study was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design. Subjects were 65 senior students from th e department of industrial education and technology of National Changhua University of Education. The experimental group received the cooperative learning program for one semester in project work while control group received individual study in project wo rk. The One Way Analysis of Covariance and t-test were conducted to analyze the data. The major findings of this study are as follows: (1) There were no significant differences on the enhancement of the scores of originality, flexibility, fluency, elabora tion and total in figural and verbal creative thinking abilities between the experimental group and control group students; (2) There were no significant differences on the scores of creativity, fluency, and total in the creativity of idea-design between the experimental group and control group students; (3) Students react more often on the function, structure, operation method of the product, and the new use of article in the creativity of idea-design; (4) The cooperative learning method improved the poi nt of thinking of the shape and operation method of the product in project work; and (5) Both the teachers and the students enjoyed cooperative learning method, and thought it would improve the abilities of cognitive, psychomotor, affective, and creativit y domains.

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