The aim and importance of the study
The aim of this study is to reveal the changes of the students’ creative thinking skills during the process of
Problem-Based Teaching one of the active teaching methods. Active learning method depends on the learning basis
that the students have to be aware of their responsibility for their own learning, and another to be said is that their
participate in learning is so important. In this context, it is obviously seen that PBL, one of the active teaching
models, has an increasing importance in our developing education system. As the students take responsibility for
their own education by means of PBL, they also become independent individuals who continue to learn throughout
life (Ersoy ve diğ. 2010). In PBL process, for this reason, analysing of creative thinking is essential.
In this study, we look for the answers about whether there is seen a significant difference before and after PBL
process between the scores of creative thinking of the first-year students of the Department of Statistics, in the
Faculty of Science at DEU; then we examine if the whole student at the same department during the same process
has a distinctive difference between their creative thinking skills’ fluency, flexibility, and originality subscale
scores or not.
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