Home|Journals|Articles by Year|Audio Abstracts
 

Research Article

EEO. 2015; 14(1): 133-150


Investigating Secondary School Students’ Views about Original Thinking Regarding Several Variables: An Example from Kars

İsmail GÜRLER, Özden DEMİR, Pınar ÖZMUTLU, Seda ARSLAN HAN.




Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine the secondary 5th-, 6th-, and 7th-grade students' views on original thinking in the dimensions of flexibility, originality, elaboration, and fluency. The study group of this descriptive study that was handled in the form of a survey model consisted of 540 students attending fifth, sixth and seventh grades, in the central district of Kars, during the 2012-2013 school-year, second semester. After eliminating the missing data, the study group consisted totally of 314 students. Original thinking questionnaire was used to collect qualitative data. As a result of the original thinking research, secondary school students received the highest score from the sub-dimension of fluency. However, depending on these findings, it has been found that, according to grade level, fifth-grade students, and according to gender variable, female students can think more originall

Key words: Original thinking, dimensions of original thinking, secondary school students.






Full-text options


Share this Article


Online Article Submission
• ejmanager.com




ejPort - eJManager.com
Refer & Earn
JournalList
About BiblioMed
License Information
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Contact Us

The articles in Bibliomed are open access articles licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.