Abstract
Higher education is considered the center of scientific and social progress, because it qualifies individuals to serve society in various fields of life. Therefore, the faculty member has become the main pillar in building future generations, so his energies should be blown to make his teaching practices innovative, distinctive and creative. This study aims to develop a scale of creative university teaching practices at King Faisal University, and to know the degree of reliance of faculty members on creative teaching practices. Furthermore, it aims to know the relationship between creative teaching practices and some personality variables. To achieve this, 50 items, distributed on four dimensions, were formulated and the construct validity of the scale was tested using the Rasch Model measurement. The study sample consisted of (150) respondents. The findings showed that the faculty members rely on creative teaching practices with a high degree in the whole scale. The findings also showed that there were statistically significant differences based on gender in favor of males, and there were no statistically significant differences based on faculty, academic rank and teaching experience. This study recommends conducting more research to find out the reasons for the different level of creative teaching practices between male and female faculty members, and determine their level of performance.
Highlights
Societies face many changes and challenges such as knowledge explosion, technological progress and speed of communication and transportation
The results showed that the faculty members' practices of the creative teaching planning were of a high degree because they provide an encouraging learning environment, clarify the appropriate action plan, involve students inpreparing, discussing, and brainstorming, and they link the topic with reality.As for the faculty members'
Practices of using the creative teaching methods and strategies, theywere of a high degree because they use exciting questions aboutcreative thinking, encourage students to reach a creative solution and formulate the problem in their own style, use problem solving method and various methods of discussion, and practice imagination to develop students' creative ideas.As for the faculty members' practices of the creative teaching presentation, they were of a high degree because they train students on how to choose, organize, and present ideas with different techniques, link content to life skills, stimulate students,respect and accept their answers, and present meaningful assignments to the problem.As forthe faculty members' practices of the comprehensive assessment, they were of a high degree, because they provide various and exciting questions
Summary
Societies face many changes and challenges such as knowledge explosion, technological progress and speed of communication and transportation. The higher education is considered the focus of the scientific and social progress, because it concerns about the rehabilitation of individuals to serve the community, prepare specialized and qualified cadres in various areas of life to face the challenges and difficulties, and prepare the elite individuals to contribute to the advancement of the social and economic development [20]. Creative teaching is instruction that develops the student's ability to connect and reorganize different elements in new ways which are characterized by fluency, flexibility and originality. It is a set of unconventional procedures that carried out by the lecturer in order to develop students' innovation
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