英文摘要 |
This study aimed to investigate the effects of mind mapping writing teaching program on creativity and writing performance for elementary fourth-grade students. A nonequivalent pretest- posttest experimentation was used to examine how it affected the creativity and writing performance of students during nine weeks. Two classes of the 4th grade stundents in an elementary school in Taipei. There were 26 students in experimental group, and 27 students in the control group. The experimental curriculum took nine weeks, two classes a week, 80 minutes a week. The instruments inclused : (1) New Creativity Thinking Test; (2) The Composition Assessment Scale; (3) Students' Learning Questionaire; and (4) Students' Feedback Questionaire. The data collected were analyzed by one-way ANCOVA and frequency ratio analysis. The main findings were as followed, mind mapping writing teaching program can: (1) promote the linguistic creativity in fluency, flexibility, and originality of the students in the experimental group; (2) promote the figural creativity in fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of the students in the experimental group; (3) promote the writing performance of the basic writing skills, sentence and word choice, the contents and thinking, and creativity thinking in the experimental group, but it can't promote the writing performance of paragraph organization; and (4) acquire the approval of most students in the experimental group. Students have positive attitude to this program and believe it can help their writing abilities and creativitiy. |