Yükseköğretimde Lisans Seviyesinde “Yaratıcılığı Beslemek”: FETEMM ve Sosyal Bilimler Alanlarından Öğrencilerin Yaratıcı Düşünme Becerindeki Değişimlerin İncelenmesi

Year 2025, Issue: 64, 2385 - 2407, 30.06.2025

Ferah Özer Aker

https://doi.org/10.53444/deubefd.1562747

Abstract

Bu çalışmada Fen-Teknoloji-Matematik-Mühendislik (FETEMM), Sosyal Bilimler ve Tıp Bilimleri gibi farklı alanlarda öğrenim gören öğrencilerin yaratıcı düşünme becerilerini geliştirmeyi hedefleyen bir lisans dersi uygulamasının, öğrencilerin yaratıcı düşünme becerilerine etkisinin alan bazlı incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada deneysel desenlerden, tek gruplu ön test-son test deneysel desen kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın katılımcılarını Türkiye’de öğretim dili İngilizce olan bir üniversitenin farklı bölümlerinde öğrenim gören 45 üniversite öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Katılımcılar, üniversitedeki tüm bölümlerden öğrencilerin programlarına ekleyebileceği “Yaratıcılığı Beslemek” adlı bir derse kaydolan öğrencilerdir. Ders kapsamında, araştırmacı tarafından katılımcılarla 14 hafta boyunca yaratıcı düşünme becerilerinin gelişimine katkı sağlamayı amaçlayan aktif öğrenme temelli uygulamalar gerçekleştirilmiştir. Uygulamaların etkililiği ön ve son test olarak kullanılan Torrance Yaratıcı Düşünme Testi görsel formlarıyla incelenmiştir. Bulgular, uygulama sonrasında tüm öğrencilerin toplam puanlarında alanlarından bağımsız olarak artış olduğunu; alan bazında incelendiğinde ise, Sosyal Bilimler alanında öğrenim gören öğrencilerin yaratıcı düşünme becerileri ve alt boyutlarının gelişiminde, FETEMM alanında öğrenim gören öğrencilere kıyasla daha iyi bir performans sergilediklerini göstermiştir. Çalışma sonuçları ilgili alan yazın çerçevesinde tartışılarak, yükseköğretimde yaratıcı düşünme becerilerinin gelişimini hedefleyen derslerin veya içeriklerin nasıl kurgulanabileceğine ilişkin karar vericilere veriye dayalı sonuçlar, çeşitli öğretim strateji ve öneriler sunulmuştur.

Keywords

Yaratıcı düşünme becerisi , Üniversite öğrencileri , Yükseköğretim , FETEMM , Sosyal bilimler

Ethical Statement

Çalışma uygulamalarının yapılabilmesi için Koç Üniversitesi İnsan Araştırmaları Etik Kurulu’ndan 02.11.2023 tarih ve 2023.366.IRB3.159 sayılı karar numarası ile etik kurul onayı alınmıştır.

“Nurturing Creativity” on Higher Education Undergraduate Level: Examination of the Change on the Creative Thinking Skills of STEM and Social Sciences Undergraduates

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effect on the change on the creative thinking skills of STEM, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences undergraduates after attending a 14-week long undergraduate course targeting to develop these skills with its extensive content, and hands-on-minds-on active learning-based interventions and to reveal cross-field differences. The study employed a one-group pretest-posttest experimental design methodology. The participants of the study consisted of 45 undergraduate students, who enrolled in a course called “Nurturing Creativity” which was offered as a university-wide elective, studying in different departments of an English-medium university in Turkey. The effectiveness of the interventions was analyzed with the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking visual forms as pre and post-tests. The findings revealed that the total scores of all students increased after the interventions, regardless of their fields, however when analyzed on a field-basis, students studying in Social Sciences outperformed the students studying in STEM disciplines in the development of creative thinking skills and its sub-dimensions. By discussing the results of the study with the relevant literature, data-driven results, various teaching strategies and suggestions are presented for decision makers and lecturers on how courses and contents targeting the development of creative thinking skills can be constructed.

Keywords

Creative thinking skills , Undergraduate students , Higher education , STEM , Social Sciences

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