Comparison of Scientific Creativity Levels of 12th Classroom Students with Various Variables

Abstract

One of the important skill areas that should be acquired by students in education is creative thinking skills. In this context, various scales have been developed by different researchers to measure creativity. Hu and Adey also developed a 7-item scale to measure scientific creativity in 2002. This developed scale was adapted into Turkish by Pekmez, Aktamış (2009) and Çeliker, Balım (2012); validity and reliability studies were carried out. The Cronbach alpha measurement reliability coefficient was found to be 0.86 by Çeliker and Balım (2012).The aim of this research is to compare students' scientific creativity according to various variables by using the scientific creativity scale developed by Hu and Adey (2002). The sample of the research consists of 249 students studying in the twelfth grade of high schools in İzmir.The scores obtained were compared using variables such as gender, educational status of the parents, central exam score and percentile in the exam. As a result of the study, there is no significant effect of gender variable on creativity. Moreover, the higher the maternal and paternal education level that is secondary education, undergraduate and higher education, the higher the originality score averages. Then, as the exam score range increases, the originality score average increases. Students in the 5% percentile have high originality score averages. The results of this study shows that mostly, article 5 has statistically significant difference about gender, maternal education level and average exam scores.