The Degree of the Science Teachers Practice of Creative Thinking Skills at the Schools of Jerash Governorate (Published)
The study aimed at identifying the degree of the science teachers practice of creative thinking skills at the schools of Jerash governorate through their perspective by means of the questionnaire and their observations in the classroom through the note card as well as specifying the relationship between the results of the questionnaire and the note card. The study sample consisted of (210) male and female teachers; and in order to realize the research objectives, the researcher prepared a list of the creative thinking skills necessary for sience teachers and a questionnaire which included four basic domains which contained the science teachers practices related to the four fields of creative thinking in addition to a note card that incorporated the same clauses of the questionnaire. The results showed that the practice of creative thinking skills as a whole by science teachers through their perspective was average and that the degree of their practice of the same skills as a whole through class observation was low. There appeared to be a relationship between the degree of science teachers practice of the creative thinking skills from their own perspective and the degree of practicing the same skills through their observation in the classroom. In the light of the research results, a number of recommendations were produced.
Keywords: creative thinking skills., degree of practice, science teachers