The effect of STEM applications on the scientific creativity of 9th-grade students.

The study aims to investigate the effect of STEM applications designed for theatomic system and periodic system unit on the scientific creativity of 9th-gradestudents. The exploratory sequential design, mixed research, is used in the study.The pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design has been preferred for thequantitative part of the study and the phenomenology design for the qualitativepart. The study lasted 12 weeks during the first semester of the 2016-2017academic year. The sample of the study consists of 133 ninth-grade high schoolstudents. The study uses an experimental and a control group. The ScientificCreativity Test was used as a data collection tool. Quantitative data wereanalyzed using the independent samples t-test through the package programSPSS 22. On the other hand, the qualitative data were analyzed using contentanalysis. As a result of the study, a statistically significant difference wasobserved to exist between the groups in terms of scientific creativity in favor ofthe experimental group. In addition, the participants were determined to have putforward many different and extraordinary thoughts with different perspectives.Based on these results, including activities that will improve students’ scientificcreativity in chemistry lessons is suggested.