Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 10, Issue 1, Article 2 (June, 2009) Özlem KORAY & Mustafa Serdar KÖKSAL The effect of creative and critical thinking based laboratory applications on creative and logical thinking abilities of prospective teachers Previous Contents Next

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The results of this study provided evidence for the effectiveness of the program. Because of the benefits found in this study, the pre-service teachers should be supported during their lab teaching experiences with critical and creative thinking based activities that explicitly model the process of creative and critical thinking. Integration of critical and creative thinking based applications into logical thinking processes should be made clearer future studies on the steps of logical thinking in common lab activities. The opportunity to critique the logical process of experiments should also be provided to pre-service students. In addition, the effectiveness of combining critical and creative thinking activities in different ways in lab studies should be further investigated.

Although the study provides experimental evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, it is limited to the sample and the instruments used. The lack of a random sampling procedure in the study is another point to consider in interpreting the results of this study. The results of this study should be extended with qualitative and quantitative follow-up studies.