The Investigation of the Relationship between Teachers’ Creative Thinking Tendencies and Individual Innovativeness Characteristics

Authors : İshak KOZİKOĞLU, Bedirhan Ahmet KÜÇÜK

Pages : 25-37

Doi:10.30786/jef.437852

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Publication Date : 2020-01-24

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study aims to investigate the relationship between teachers` creative thinking tendencies and individual innovativeness characteristics. This study used correlational survey model and was carried out with 283 teachers from different branches working in Turkey. `Critical Thinking Dispositions Scale` developed by Özgenel and Çetin insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2017);, `Individual Innovativeness Scale` adapted into Turkish by Kılıçer and Odabaşı insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2010); were used as data collection tools. In data analysis; descriptive statistics insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(arithmetic mean and standard deviation);, differential statistics insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(t test and ANOVA);, Pearson Product Moments Correlation Coefficient and simple linear regression analysis were used. The results show that teachers` creative thinking tendencies are at high level and individual innovativeness characteristics are in the `early adopters` and `early majority` categories. While teachers` creative thinking tendencies and individual innovativeness characteristics did not change significantly according to gender, it was determined that teachers who had 16 years and more experience had a higher level of creative thinking tendencies and individual innovative scores than teachers who had between 1-5 years. A moderate, positive and significant relationship was found to be between teachers` creative thinking tendencies and individual innovativeness characteristics.
Keywords : creative thinking, innovation, individual innovativeness