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

Method

This research is a quasi-experimental study with non-equivalent groups, which includes pre and post-test design with the control group (Fraenkel & Wallen, 2003). This research was conducted with 90 prospective elementary teachers in Eregli education department at the Zonguldak Karaelmas University in the spring semester of the 2004-2005 academic year. The course lasted 3 hours for each week over a period of twelve weeks with the pre and post-test applications. The investigation was conducted in the science laboratory as a one-semester course by the researchers. There were two randomly assigned groups in which one group of students was exposed to creative and critical thinking based lab instruction, and the other was exposed to traditional lab instruction. Data was collected through creative and logical thinking tests.