@article{article_373225, title={SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF PRESCHOOL TEACHER CANDIDATES}, journal={Uluslararası Eğitim Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi}, volume={3}, pages={88–102}, year={2017}, author={Karakaş, Tuğçe and Afacan, Özlem}, keywords={Creativity,Scientific Creativity,Scientific Creativity Test,Preschool Education}, abstract={<p>This study was conducted to determine the level of scientific creativity of preschool teacher candidates and to investigate whether there is a </p> <p>meaningful difference between the scientific creativity of the teacher candidates and some demographic characteristics. The study group of </p> <p>the research group constitutes 149 teacher candidates who are studying at Ahi Evran University Faculty of Education Elementary Education </p> <p>Department Preschool Education Department in Kırşehir. The "Scientific Creativity Test (BYT)" developed by Hu and Adey (2002) and </p> <p>adapted to Turkish by Kadayıfçı (2008) used data collection tool in the research. Moreover, "Personal Information Form" has been applied to </p> <p>determine personal characteristics. In the analysis of the data, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, maximum and minimum values of </p> <p>average scores of teacher candidates taken to determine scientific creativity levels were calculated and t-test and ANOVA were used to </p> <p>determine differences between groups. In research findings, when the scientific creativity of teacher candidates is examined, it is concluded </p> <p>that scientific creativity levels are moderate. Besides this, the average scores of the scientific creativity of the teacher candidates and with </p> <p>respect to the income monthly in level of the family income have been reached to significant difference. </p>}, number={3}, publisher={Ahmet AKÇAY}