Analysis of the Effect of Scamper Education Program on five-year-old children’s creativity
Keywords:
Preschool period, creative behavior, creative personality, scamper technique, scamper education programAbstract
This study is conducted with a view to examine the effect of Scamper Education Program on five-year-old children’s creativity. Study group of the research consists of a total of 40 children including an experimental group of 20 five-year-old children and a control group of 20 children attending kindergarten affiliated to Directorate of National Education in Çankırı city center. In the research, an experimental model with pretest, posttest, follow-up test control group was used. Children in the experimental group were applied with Scamper Education Program two days a week for a period of eight weeks. The children in the control group continued their own training programs. As the data collection tool in the study, “Personal Information Form” and “Creative Behavior and Personality Traits Scale were used. Single factor covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and t test were used for data analysis. As a result of the research, it has been determined that there is a significant difference between creativity score averages of children in the experiment and control group (p<0.001), there is no significant differences between post-test and follow-up test score averages of children in the experiment group (p>0.05). This result shows that Scamper Education Program provided to the experimental group is effective in creativity of children.
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