The influence of individual differences on technical creativity in Slovenian K-9 students

Avsec, Stanislav (avtor), Modic, Klavdija (avtor)

This study aims to verify and understand the effect of individual differences on technical creativity in Slovenian K-9 students. Students' learning styles and their attitudes towards technology and engineering, which might have implications in students for teaching and developing creativity, were investigated. Despite of several approaches to teaching and of curriculum learning standards in technical creativity, technology education courses still suffer from creativity development needed for future creation of new technologies, and for inventions of products. For the purpose of this study, an effective sample of n=177 secondary school students in grade 6 and in grade 9 was collected. An empirical research design was followed. A recently developed DSLI learning style inventory was used for measuring learning styles, while student attitude towards technology and engineering was surveyed with 25-item test. Students' creative potential was measured with a standardised test of creative thinking-divergent production. The results of the study on creativity show no significant (p>0.05) differences in creative potential between sixth- and ninth-graders. Moreover, interest for technology is not particularly positive for both groups of students, when a lack of technology identification in sixth-graders appears significantly (p<0.05). Students' learning styles were found as significant (p<0.05) predictors in students creative potential. Students still feel perplexed with technology and the current design and technology curriculum might not markedly influence student decision to pursuit careers in technology and engineering.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: technology education, technical creativity, learning styles, attitude
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: PEF - Pedagoška fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2017
• Št. strani: Str. 128-143
• Številčenje: Vol. 9, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-96690
• UDK: 373.32.016::62
• ISSN pri članku: 1803-6805
• DOI: 10.5507/jtie.2017.021
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11767625

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Opomba

KLJUČNE BESEDE: tehnična pismenost, ustvarjalnost, učni stili, tehnološko izobraževanje

• Datum objave v RUL: 11.10.2017

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of technology and information education
• Skrajšan naslov: J. technol. inf. educ.
• Založnik: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Pedagogická fakulta
• ISSN: 1803-6805
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9842249

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• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 3.0 Nedoločena
• Povezava: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.sl
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Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Češki jezik
• Naslov: Vliv individuálních odlišností u žáků základních škol ve Slovinsku na technickou kreativitu

Izvleček

Cílem studie bylo ověřit vliv individuálních odlišností na technickou kreativitu. Byly zkoumány učební styly žáků a jejich postoje k různým technickým oblastem (technika, technologie, konstruování). Podařilo se mj. zjistit, že žáci mezi 6. – 9. ročníkem nevykazují žádné významné rozdíly v tvůrčím potenciálu.

• Ključne besede: technická výchova, technická tvořivost, učební styly, postoj