本研究的主要目的為:(l)探討國小資優班實施創造思考教學的現況,(2)探討國小資優班學生的創造思考表現。 研究對象為我國的國小資優班,樣本為取自台灣北、中、南三區的18名資優班教師與212名資優班學生。研究工具為「創造思考教學量表」、「創造思考測驗」、「新編問題解決測驗」、「少年自我實現量表」和「威廉斯創造性傾向量表」。 本研究的主要發現如下: 國小資優班教師普遍具備適當之創造思考教學基礎知識,但是創造思考教學實施上所需運用的進階知識和教學技巧仍有待充實。 國小資優班教師在創造思考教學實施上最主要的困難為環境條件,其次是教學實施方式。資優班學生的創造思考能力、創造性傾向與問題解決能力皆優於普通班學生。
The purpose of this study was: (1) to investigate current status of creativity teaching in Taiwan elementary gifted classes (2) to investigate the cognitive and affective creativity performiance of gifted students from those gifted classes. The Inventory of Creativity Teaching was administered to 18 teachers of elementary gifted classes while other four instruments, including Verbal Test of Creative Thinking. Test of Problem-Solving, Chinese Form of Williams Test of Creativity, and Scale of Self-Actualization for Adolescents, were administered to 212 grade 6 gifted students from those classes. The major findings of this study were as the following: The majority of the gifted class teachers had possessed proper basic concepts about creativity teaching, but still not enough in advanced know ledge and instructional skills. The main difficulty of implementing creativity teaching came from environmental obstacles; Students from gifted classes showed higher level of creative thinking ability, problem-solving ability and creative characteristics than that of those from regular classes.