The Correlation Between the Creative Thinking Tendency of Mathematics Teacher Candidates and Their Attitudes Towards Instructional Technologies and Material Design Lesson

Abstract

Instructional Technologies and Material Design (ITMD) lesson is a tool that enables Mathematics teacher candidatesto design materials for contributing to lasting learning of their students, and use them most effectively. This lessonhelps students to activate their creative thinking skills, increase their courage and self-confidence, find differentsolutions in the face of problems, and therefore introduce creative products. In this context, firstly, it is aimed toexamine the level of Mathematics teacher candidates' attitudes towards the Instructional Technologies and MaterialDesign lesson and their effects in terms of different variables in this study and then determine whether there is arelationship between creative thinking tendencies of Mathematics teacher candidates and their attitudes towardsInstructional Technologies and Material Design lesson in this study. The sample of the research constitutes of 315Mathematics teacher candidates who are studying in Mathematics Education Department spring semester of the2016-2017 academic year of at Necmettin Erbakan University. The data were obtained by applying Marmara CreativeThinking Tendency Scale (MCTTS) developed by Özgenel and Çetin (2017) and whose validity and reliability studieswere conducted to teacher candidates, and by applying the Attitude Scale towards Instructional Technologies andMaterial Design Lesson (ASITMD) developed by Çetin, Bağçeci, Kınay, Şimşek (2013) and whose validity andreliability studies were conducted. There was no significant difference between the Attitudes towards InstructionalTechnologies and Material Design Lesson and the Creative Thinking tendencies, in terms of gender variable, but it wasfound significant difference in terms of the high school graduation variable. However, it was obtained that there is apositive and non significant relationship between creative thinking tendencies of Mathematics teacher candidates andtheir attitudes towards Instructional Technologies and Material Design lesson.