| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 化學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the effect of STS（Science, Technology ＆ Society） instructions(hand warmer and voltaic cell) on 9th grade junior high school students’ creativity.
The quasi-experimental design was selected for this study. The subjects were students(N=67) in two classes of 9th grade selected from a junior high school in Taipei county. One class was assigned to be an experimental group(N=33) and the other was assigned to be a control group(N=34). The experimental group was adopted STS instruction once a week. The control group was adopted the traditional teaching. The instruments were science-concept tests and Creativity Assessment Packet(CAP). The experimental group students' science-concept tests grades were analyzed by t-test. In addition, the experimental group and control group students' Creativity Assessment Packet grades were by one-way analysis of covariance.
The results of this study were as following:
1.Students of the experimental group had obvious progress in the knowledge after teaching activity, in “hand warmer” module’s science-concept tests, the experimental group students got better grades on post-test than that of on pre-test. The difference between the means was approached to 25.45. The t-test for statistical significance in the difference between the means was significant (t=12.17, p＜0.05);In “voltaic cell” module’s science-concept tests, the experimental group students got better grades on post-test than that of on pre-test, and the difference between the means was approached to 37.27. The t-test for statistical significance in the difference between the means was significant (t=9.68, p＜0.05). It presented that STS instruction is helpful for 9th grade junior high school students to improve their science-concept.
2.The results of creative thinking abilities were that the students of experimental group got higher scores on fluency, opening, originality, elaboration, title and the whole part of creative thinking abilities(p＜0.05). There were no significant differences on flexibility between students of the two groups.
3.The results of creative attitude were that the students of experimental group got higher scores on imagination(p＜0.05);but there were no significant differences in adventure, curiosity and challenge between students of the two groups.
4.The results of feeling were that most students hold the positive perception about the STS instruction.
According to the conclusions, STS instruction is helpful for 9th grade junior high school students to improve their creativity.
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