Approach to Evaluation of Pupils’ Creativity in Science Lessons II

Abstract

In the reformation of science education arising from PSSC, Bruner proposed propagation of the heuristic learning method. Upbringing of intuitive thinking was an important part in the learning method. The intuitive thinking is essential in the creative thinking which has ben attention to in the educational world. Pupils' creativity will be brought up effectively by the learning method. We concentrated upon evaluation of the intuitive thinking in practical lessons which originated in the heuristic learning method, and tried to evaluate pupils’ creativity in science lessons. We took note of the quantity and quality of pupils' speakings in the lessons. The speakings were estimated whether they took any importantrole in lessons and had any originality. As a result, we found out that the most of the pupils who frequently state their opinions of high quality get better marks than average in achievement tests and creativity test. When we rank the pupils by considering both achievement tests and analyses of their speakings, we found out that highest-grade pupils get high marks in creativity test as well. On the other hand, ranking by only achievement tests made it difficult to select those creative pupils.