ERIC Number: EJ1116889
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Oct
Pages: 11
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ISSN: EISSN-1554-5210
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Investigating the Competence of Classroom Teachers in Terms of Nominating the Students with High Creativity and Gender-Biased Decisions
Sahin, Feyzullah
International Journal of Progressive Education, v12 n3 p110-120 Oct 2016
The main purpose of this study was to analyse the classroom teachers' competence in identifying above-average creative students, and their gender-bias during the identification process. A descriptive survey model was employed as a research method. A total of 317 elementary school students took part in this study. As data collecting tools, a teacher observation form, the creativity scale, and the Torrance Thinking Creativity Test were used. The results of the study enabled the determination of a teacher rating scale that helped the teachers categorize their students more clearly and differentiate them in such a way as to enable gender-bias to be reduced when compared to the teacher's opinion method.
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Talent Identification, Gender Bias, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Rating Scales, Sex Fairness, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: http://www.inased.org/ijpe.htm
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
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