Fourth Graders Make Inventions Using SCAMPER and Animal Adaptation Ideas

Autor/inn/en	Hussain, Mahjabeen; Carignan, Anastasia
Titel	Fourth Graders Make Inventions Using SCAMPER and Animal Adaptation Ideas
Quelle	In: Journal of STEM Arts, Crafts, and Constructions, 1 (2016) 2, S.48-66 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2475-966X
Schlagwörter	Grade 4; Elementary School Students; Animals; Animation; Creativity; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Charts; Scoring Rubrics; Science Instruction; Scientific Concepts; STEM Education; Improvement; Surveys; Spreadsheets + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Kreativität; Diagram; Diagrams; Diagramm; Tabellarische Überischt; Tabelle; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; STEM; Qualitätssteigerung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Spread sheet; Spredsheets; Spreadsheet; Tabellenkalkulation
Abstract	This study explores to what extent the SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, and Rearrange) technique combined with animal adaptation ideas learned through form and function analogy activities can help fourth graders generate creative ideas while augmenting their inventiveness. The sample consisted of 24 fourth grade students (14 female, 10 male) ages 9-10 at a suburban Midwestern elementary school. A repeated-measures design involving all participants alternately in the two conditions measured students under each treatment condition. In the experimental condition, students used SCAMPER charts with animal adaptation ideas to generate ideas to improve a product using limited materials; in the control condition, they used simple SCAMPER charts to improve a product with limited materials. A scoring rubric was designed to assess the utilization of the SCAMPER chart and students' inventiveness. Paired t-tests were used to compare each student's average score in the control condition to the experimental condition. Students' inventiveness scores showed a statistically significant difference with a p-value of 0.003. The resulting Cohen's d was 0.64, a medium effect size, favoring the experimental condition. In contrast, student scores for completing the two types of SCAMPER charts favored the simpler control condition's chart. However, student products completed under the experimental condition showed more complexity and originality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01