An Analysis of Fifth and Sixth Grade Students' Acquisition of the Inventing Process.

Autor/inn/en	Kuehn, Christine; Krockover, Gerald
Titel	An Analysis of Fifth and Sixth Grade Students' Acquisition of the Inventing Process.
Quelle	(1986), (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Creative Thinking; Creativity; Discovery Processes; Elementary School Science; Grade 5; Grade 6; Instructional Effectiveness; Instructional Improvement; Intelligence; Intermediate Grades; Inventions; Measurement Techniques; Process Education; Science Education; Science Instruction; Scientific Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Kreatives Denken; Kreativität; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Unterrichtserfolg; Unterrichtsqualität; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Mittelstufe; invention; Erfindung; Messtechnik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to determine whether an instructional unit on inventing affected the inventive abilities of fifth and sixth graders and investigate the possible effects of the unit on students' creativity scores and attitudes towards science. Concomitantly, this study attempted to determine whether relationships existed between students' inventive abilities and the following: achievement, intelligence, creativity, and creative interests. One-hundred-seven fifth and sixth graders in three elementary schools were randomly assigned by school to experimental and control groups. Analysis of the data revealed a number of significant interactions. For the measure of inventing, instruction by sex and school by grade were significant interactions. Achievement as a covariate was also found to be significant. The interaction, school by grade by sex, was significant for creativity. There were no significant correlations between inventing, creativity, and attitude towards science, as measured by this study, although changes in creativity scores and attitudes towards science scores occurred. The results of this study suggest that instruction does increase inventiveness for some students. (Author/TW)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC