The Effect of an Instructional Program, Based on Creative Thinking, on Developing Painting Composition skills among students

Abstract

This research, entitled “The Effect of an Instructional Program Based on Creative Thinking to Develop Students’ Skills in Composition of Painting”, is a study that, through designing a program, works on the basis of creative thinking to develop students’ artistic products and solve the problems of composition subject in a scientific way under the light of new and creative thinking. This study aims at revealing the effect of the instructional program on developing students’ composition skills. It also attempts to find out the differences between genders (male and female) in terms of the effect of the instructional program on students’ skills in composing paintings and utilizing creative thinking in their paintings. Likewise, this program was applied on fourth year students of plastic art department, painting branch at Chamchamal Fine Arts Institute. Experimental method has been used with one group that their number was 18 students. Psychosometric charectristics of the used instruments were obtained and then a pre-test was carried out with the students. In addition, the students were taught for 6 weeks through the new creative thinking program which was based on experts’ views and scientific sources. At the end of the course, a post-test took place that included theoretical and practical parts. The practical part and products were scored and assessed by a committee of specialists in the field. Moreover, the data was analysed based on the Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Test equations. The results of the study showed that there was a positive effect of the instructional program on the developing painting composition skills. Regarding the gender difference, the study revealed that despite the existence of differences between male and female students in the pre-test, there was a signifant differences between gender in Painting Compositionin in the post-test. Suggesting that, the instructional program is benefical for both male and female students. Conversely, statistically signifant difference between gender was not found in creative thinking in the post-test.