A Study on the Correlations between Technological Literacy and Form Creativity of Design Department Students in Universities

[[abstract]] The Scale of Technological Literacy of Design Department in University and the Form Creativity Scale developed by the researcher were employed in this study. The main purpose was to explore in the correlations between design majors’ technological literacy and form creativity. One thousand design majors and none-design majors in nine public and private general universities and technology universities were selected randomly as samples in this study. Statistic methods such as one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, stepwise multiple regression and path analysis were employed to analyze the data of this study. The main results show that: (1) design-majors’ technological literacy and form creativity range from intermediate degree to high degree. (2) among design-majors, males’ technological literacy is superior to females’, while females’ form creativity is superior to males’. (3) among design majors, those whose senior high school living technology classes were sometimes used for other purposes have better technological literacy performance, while different situations of senior high school living technology class have little influence on students’ form creativity. (4) the degree of skill domain of design-majors’ technological literacy influences the degree of aesthetic domain of form creativity. The higher the performance of the skill domain is, the lower the performance of aesthetic domain is, and vice versa. (5) the degree of technological literacy of design-majors influences the degree of their form creativity. (6) the Scale of Technological Literacy of Design Department in University and the Form Creativity Scale are proved to be have empirical value.