ADAPTATION STUDY OF CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING FEATURES INVENTORY TO TURKISH

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This study aims to make an adaptation study of Creative Problem Solving Attribute Inventory (CPSAI) to Turkish and to obtain a measurement tool for revealing the creative problem solving characteristics of secondary school students. The CPSAI which is used in the study is developed by Lin (2010) and aimed to reveal the creative problem solving characteristics of the students. The original inventory is of the 5-point Likert type, consists of 49 items and five factors: convergent thinking, divergent thinking, motivation, environment, general knowledge and skills. As a result of the changes made by Lin (2010), this scale has been reduced to 40 items. During the Turkish validity and reliability studies of the inventory, primarily linguistic equivalence studies were conducted. The validity and reliability of the scale was respectively measured with Confirmatory Factor Analysis and the reliability coefficient obtained with Cronbach α and the results showed that the scale has a five-factor structure as in the original version. Totally 856 secondary school students studying in different provinces have been included for the research. The results of the study reveal that Turkish-adapted CPSAI consists of 40 items is a valid and reliable measurement tool that can be used to determine creative problem solving characteristics of secondary school students.

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Creative problem solving , validity , reliability

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi