Analysis of the Effect of Scamper Education Program on five-year-old children’s creativity

Abstract

This study is conducted with a view to examine the effect of Scamper Education Program on fiveyear-old children's creativity. Study group of the research consists of a total of 40 children including an experimental group of 20 five-year-old children and a control group of 20 children attending kindergarten affiliated to Directorate of National Education in Çankırı city center. In the research, an experimental model with pretest, posttest, follow-up test control group was used. Children in the experimental group were applied with Scamper Education Program two days a week for a period of eight weeks. The children in the control group continued their own training programs. As the data collection tool in the study, "Personal Information Form" and "Creative Behavior and Personality Traits Scale were used. Single factor covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and t test were used for data analysis. As a result of the research, it has been determined that there is a significant difference between creativity score averages of children in the experiment and control group (p<0.001), there is no significant differences between post-test and follow-up test score averages of children in the experiment group (p>0.05). This result shows that Scamper Education Program provided to the experimental group is effective in creativity of children.

Bibliometric analysis of SCAMPER strategy over the past 20 years

“…In addition, SCAMPER makes students feel free and use the material in and around themselves without hesitation or fear to reveal their personality and instinctive creative behavior. SCAMPER enables children to dream, think differently, and produce original products [64]. Through SCAMPER, students can create original products through various questions that lead to different thinking.…”