Abstract: It can be said that developing creative thinking skills is the key to educational success. “Creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new. Creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing, but the ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas”(Harris, 1998). In science education, there are several general creative thinking tests which have been designed to evaluate how much students have gained the three creative thinking skills (fluency, flexibility and originality) from learning. There are no specific creativity tests for subjects such as Physics. This paper will describe as part of a bigger study a Physics creativity test was prepared for Iraqi second-grade intermediate students. Building upon the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Tests (TTCT) and various other creative thinking tests in science education creative thinking test was prepared specifically for Iraqi physics students in the second-grade intermediate level. This test of creative thinking has been examined in terms of validity and reliability. The result indicated that the creative thinking test has appropriate validity and reliability and the test can be applied successfully.
Keywords: creative thinking tests; creativity in physics, second-grade intermediate students
Title: Developing a Creative Thinking Test for Iraqi Physics Students
Author: FARAH ALRUBAIE, ESTHER GNANAMALAR SAROJINI DANIEL
International Journal of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-5736 (Online)
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