A Study of the Effects of Teams-games-tournaments Teaching Method on Creativity Ability for the Sixth Graders in Elementary School.

Autor: Wen-Chi Chen, 陳文琦
Rok vydání: 2013
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 101
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of “Teams-Games-Tournaments” (TGT) teaching method in Mandarin curriculum on Creativity ability of the sixth graders. This study was designed to compare the Creativity ability of the sixth graders who received the TGT method of instruction and that of those students who received the traditional lecture method. Quasi-experimental method with non-equivalent control group design was applied in this study. Purposive sampling method was used to select 5 classes from one elementary school in New Taipei City for pre-testing homogeneity on Creativity ability of samples. To achieve the purpose of this study, two intact classes were assigned as control and experimental groups. The experimental group consisted of 28 students and the control group consisted of 27 students. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) was applied to examine participants’ Creativity ability. Descriptive statistics, one sample t-test, independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test, point-biserial correlation and ANCOVA were employed to examine research assumptions. Results indicate that both control and experiment groups appeal significant improvement in Abstractness and Elaboration between the pre- and post- tests. Research also finds significant differences in all five indicators of Creativity ability between two groups; in addition, those who received TGT teaching method have greater performance and improvement than those who received lecture instruction in all 5 dimensions. Girls have higher levels of Abstractness and Elaboration than boys. TGT instruction method is found to be more effective on Creativity ability than lecture instruction of the sixth graders in Mandarin curriculum in this study.
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