The Effects of Early Childhood Education on Creative Thinking Skills

Volume: 3 Number: 2 December 1, 2010
  • Münevver Can Yaşar
  • Neriman Aral
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The Effects of Early Childhood Education on Creative Thinking Skills

Abstract

This study was planned in order to investigate creative thinking skills of children who were receiving preschool education and those who were not. The population of the study consisted of six-year-old children who were attending to the preschools of primary schools located in Ankara. The sample included 210 six-year-old normally developed children who were attending to eight randomly selected pre-schools. In order to obtain data from the children, `General Information Form` and `Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production (TCT-DP)` which had been developed by Urban and Jellen (1996) and of which validity and reliability for six year old Turkish children were studied by Can-Yaşar (2009) were used. Mann-Whitney U test was used to analyze the relationship between the children’s creative thinking skills and their status of receiving early childhood education and their gender. As a result, creative thinking scores of the children attending to preschools were found out to be significantly higher than those of children who weren’t (p

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Münevver Can Yaşar This is me

Neriman Aral This is me

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December 1, 2010

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December 1, 2010

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Year 1970 Volume: 3 Number: 2

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Yaşar, M. C., & Aral, N. (2010). The Effects of Early Childhood Education on Creative Thinking Skills. Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences, 3(2), 201-209. https://izlik.org/JA22FT54BH