A Study of The Relationship between Information Processing Ability and Creative Problem Solving Ability of Students in Data Processing Department of Vocational High school.

• Main Authors: Huang, Yu-Chun, 黃玉君
• Other Authors: Chuang, Chien-Pen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64470149371254384693

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育學系 === 98 === Creativity is the motivation to drive people and society in progress. Facing the knowledge economic and the environment of the technology life cycle is getting shorter remarkably. Therefore, ability of creative problem solving becomes necessary in cultivating students. The study is to explode the connotation of individual information processing ability and the creative problem solving ability and analyze the correlation between them. Hopefully, it can be a reference to design curriculum and activity for teachers, and also is expected to achieve the goal which students have creative ability to solve problems. Documentary analysis, questionnaires, and expert examination are used in the research. The subjects are the freshman year students who study data processing as major in vocational high school in Taipei. There are 60 effected samples. Situation questions were used in activities and collected and analyzed data simultaneously. The methods of data analysis are mean, standard deviation and one-sample t test which are to discover abilities of attention, working memory capacity, metacognition and creative problem solving of subjects in thinking process of digital design, also explode correlation between abilities of information process and creative problem solving by Pearson correlation. The result presents significant correlation between attention ability, working memory capacity, metacognition and creative problem solving abilities. When data is analyzed further in details, it illustrate that working memory capacity and problem solving attitude are low correlation, also between problem solving attitude, metacogniton and creativity proformance. To sum up, the evidence suggests teachers should add project based learning and problem based learning in order to improve students’ creative ability to solve problems.