The Effects of Creative Thinking Instruction Integrated into the Mechanical Professional Subjects on the Creativity of the Students in Vocational High School

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of creative thinking instruction integrated into mechanical professional subjects on the creativity of students in vocational high school. This research adopt the “nonequivalent pretest —posttest control group design” in quasi-experiment design. Two schools were picked up as judgmental samples. One of them is experiment group with 78 members, who accept the curriculums design of creative thinking instructions. The other one is as control group with 79 members, who accepts conventional teaching method. The experiments lasted for 16 weeks. The study instruments include：The “Torrance creative thinking ability”, newly compiled by Mr. Wu, Ching-Chi., mechanical technological creativity, survey questionnaire on the learning reactions, and etc. Such statistic methods are used as one way analysis of covariance（ANCOVA）, frequency distributing , t-test, and etc. From the study results, we found that: 1. Students’ abilities on creative thinking, made significantly great gains in originality, elaboration of figural creative thinking abilities than students in control group. 2. Students’ abilities on creative thinking, made significantly great gains in fluency, flexibility, originality of verbal creative thinking abilities than students in control group. 3. Students’ abilities on mechanical technology did not made significantly great gains in fluency, flexibility, originality of creative thinking abilities than students in control group. 4. There are no any related relationships between students’ creativity and achievement of Mechanical Manufacture, Machine Elements Principles. 5. Students have deep experience on the topics regarding to creativity and give lots of positive feedback. 6. Teachers must establish the learning environment and study constantly in order to link the teaching methods of the teaching material and actual life together. Improving students' creativity effectively through evaluation on whole learning process and finished products concurrently.