Effects of Creative Thinking Techniques on Technological Innovation ---An Experiment in Junior High Technology Curriculum

[[abstract]]This study is to explore the effects of different creative thinking techniques on technological innovation tasks in junior high technology curriculum. A true experiment design and pretest-posttest design will be adapted to teaching experiment. The three independent variables are creative thinking techniques , types of innovation, and stages of innovation. The dependent variables are idea creativity, design creativity, and product creativity. There are about 600 junior high school students participated in this study from 15 classes. Analysis of Covariance will be conducted to investigate the correlation and the inter-correlation within those independent variables in relation to the dependent variable.