Abstract
One of the main goals of our current science education is to increase everyone’s scientific literacy and creativity. With that happening, national competence could be enhanced. Also, it is believed that one’s scientific creativity can be developed in his or her childhood. The research found out how a hands-on curriculum, scientific process skill training, creativity activities and assessment tool design could develop and uplift primary school students’ creativity. Ten scientific process skills consisted of observing, summarizing, selecting, designing and drawing, tool applying, experiment operating, measuring, depicting, comparing and analyzing, and naming. Students’ scientific process skills were evaluated via a test designed by the researchers. Scientific creativity, which is mainly composed of openness, flexibility, originality, fluency, precision and entitling, was assessed with William’s Creativity Assessment. The researchers found that, after given the scientific process skill training, students’ average score of scientific creativity raised, especially in precision. Therefore, it was inferred that scientific creativity can be improved by conducting on students scientific process skill training.
| Keywords: | scientific creativity; scientific process skill; elementary students; hands-on; assessment tools |
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