Effectivity analysis of approaches to creativity education for engineering students

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the educational methods used in creativity enhancement classes. These are the independent and integrated approach method. For investigation, the changes in the participants before and after the Creative Engineering Design and Creative Thinking Training classes in the Engineering Department were analyzed using the TTCT creativity test. Participants in the Creative Thinking Training class showed more statistically significant increases in their scores for the detailed categories of Fluency and Abstractness of title. Thus, the independent approach method was found to be more effective in enhancing the creativity of engineering students.