Title :
The Effect of Using Brainstorming Strategy on Developing Creative Thinking Skills for Sixth Grade Students in Science Teaching
Author :
Taleb, Ahmed ; Hamza, Hossam ; Wefky, Eman
Author_Institution :
BTC, Univ. of Bahrain, Sakhair, Bahrain
Abstract :
This study explores the effect of using brainstorming strategies in teaching science on improve creative thinking for sixth grade students in Isa town primary school. More specifically, this paper focuses on students´ creative thinking skill, There are a lots of ways directed to development of creative thinking is the most important way of brainstorming being tested in the field of education on the many educational materials and proven effective in the development of the creative capabilities of students, such as Collado study (Collado 1992), Sanfilippo (Sanfilippo 1993) , this study comes to know the effect of using the method of brainstorming in the teaching of science on the development of creative thinking for students in the sixth grade primary in kingdom of Bahrain. The population of research is 60 students (two classes). Data were collecting after doing a two test (pre test and post test), quantity data were collected. From this research, some differences have been found in students´ the brainstorming strategies have effective of students´ creative thinking skills and we found this results from significant differences for experimental group.
Keywords :
educational institutions; teaching; Bahrain; Isa town primary school; brainstorming strategy; creative capabilities; creative thinking skills; educational materials; science teaching; sixth grade students; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Instruments; Psychology; Technological innovation; Training; brainstorming; strategies;creative thinking; fluency; flexibilities; originality;
Conference_Titel :
e-Learning "Best Practices in Management, Design and Development of e-Courses: Standards of Excellence and Creativity" , 2013 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Manama
DOI :
10.1109/ECONF.2013.25