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Ming yeh chiang, A study on the relationship between mechanical engineering.teachers'creative

teac"hin! ano s[udents'ielnnotogical creaiivity at vocational.figl schools
in Taiwan, world
2006
TransaJtions on Engineering and iechnology Education, Vol.5, No.3,

Objective:

The main purpose of this study is to find out the correlation paths between
m.echanical
at vocational high
engineering teachers' creative teaching and students' technological creativity
schools in laiwan in order to improve teaching strategies.

Summary:
subjects in the
The researchei- adopted document analysis and a questionnaire survey. The
questionnaire investigation were mechinical engineering- senior students. Cluster
random
students' answers being
sampling was used to collect 203 students' data,-with 199 effective
by frequency'
obdi;d, yietding an effective rate of recovery of 98%. The data was analyzed
was concluded that
mean, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Ztest and canonical correlation analysis. lt
high schools included three
meinanicat eigineering teachers' creative teaching in vocational five
creativity comprised
irpott"',i elem"ents, wiite mecnanical engineering itudents' technical
keY elements. /'/ l

teachers' creative teaching only reach.ed a fair

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of mechanical engineering
*------;;gree.
-Jh.ffifiditions
The actuat conditions of mechJnical eigineering students' technological
creativity only
reached a good degree. Different mechanical eigineering teachers'
creative teaching methods
have varioul impacti on the levels of students' technical creativity.

Research Motivations and Backg rounds

Tecffiogical creativity becomes the most important devetopmental resource of a country

and
provides i foundation for nationaleconomic development'
to economic
Technologicai creativity has an obvious function to foster innovation and changes
production technologY.
who has the
The so-called technological creativity is the innovation ability of an individual quickly
knowledge, skills andsk]ttut tecnnological experience accum.ulated from
learning through
show
tninfing,"an enthusiastic and persistent attiiude, and a willingness to help others, high
performance and achieve the goal of innovation.

Research Design and Practices

The author collected research documents and references about technological creativity
and
to establish the
conducted a content analysis, then drew conclusions in accordance with the need
Creativity Sca/e'
direction of study an*compife a Mechanical Engineering Student Technological
process of creative
The scale included three major parts: characteristics of creative teaching,
teaching and strategies for creative teaching.
in Table 3'
The results of analysing the documents concerning technological creativity are listed
Among the five dimeniions, the most frequent ii skilful technique (13 times), with the least
frequent being perseverance (9 times).