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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between classroom climate and students'''''''' creative performance on natural science. The subjects were 41 fourth grade students of an elementary school in Tainan. In order to collect data about students'''''''' perception of calssroom climate, the Science Classroom Creative Climate Inventory was performed, and classroom observation and interviews with the students were conducted. The Creative Science Problem Solving Test , the Creative Science Problem Work Sheets, and the Learning Reflection Record Sheets were administered to collect students'''''''' data for portfolio assessment on creative performance. The main findings were as follows: 1.Students tended to have a positive. classroom climate perception on Safety, Freedom,Diversity, Intrinsic Motivation, Cohesiveness, Positive Material Environment, and Students'''''''' Creative Behavior. 2.Students tended to have a negative. classroom climate perception on Individualization. 3.Students tended to have a positive. classroom climate perception on Threat, Restriction, Unification, Monotony, and Extrinsic Motivation. 4.Students tended to have a negative. classroom climate perception on Alienation, and Negative Material Environment. 5.Students tended to have low scres of fluency, flexibility, originality, and evaluation in Creative Science Problem Solving Test. 6.Students tended to produce reproductive and inappropriate works on the Creative Science Problem work sheets. 7.Students'''''''' perception on Diversity and Positive Material Environment were negatively and significantly correlated with scores of fluency and flexibility in the Creative Science Problem Solving Test. 8.Students'''''''' perception on Extrinsic Motivation, Alienation, and Negative Material Environment were negatively and significantly correlated with score of the originality on Creative Science Problem Work Sheets. 9.There was no significant difference in perceptions of positive and negative classroom climate between high creative students and low creative students. 10.There were significant differences in perceptions of extrinsic motivation and intrisnic motivation between high creative students and low creative students.
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