| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立花蓮教育大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 94 === This research applied the psychological strategies and skills of creative thinking (Rau, 2005) to cultivate fourth graders’ creative thinking abilities and to enhance their scientific creativity via creative teaching strategies and a web-based learning environment called TINS. Therefore, the researcher took action research method and conducted three units of science teaching. The results found that most students understood the psychological strategies and skills of creative thinking. Some students demonstrated flexibility and orginality while a few students can even demonstrated elaboration in the hands-on activities that fostered creativity.
The researcher used the psychological process of creative thinking (Rau, 2005) as a scaffold and then modified it to be “identify task”, “generate ideas and select the workable combination of ideas”, “modify ideas and improve quality”, and “evaluate and try ideas”. The modified process fitted the fourth graders better.
The researcher designed 24 creative activities and integrated them into teaching three science units. The researcher also learned how to modify and apply the psychological process, strategies and skills in creative thinking (Rau, 2005) to promote students’ scientific creativity. Moreover, the researcher learned how to edit some components of TINS to suit the special needs in this research.
In conclusion, students showed sensitivity via creative teaching strategy, while they showed originality or elaboration during hands-on activities or science competition. TINS (the web-based learning environment) recorded the psychological process of creative thinking and helped students to gain creative thinking abilities. In addition, the researcher found that the relations between the process of creative thinking and creativity tied together. The researcher also found that the psychological process of creative thinking may be somehow different due to the difference in the learning fields.
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