Research Title Making a Program and Measurement for Serious Creation of Female College Students

Abstract

The research's problem, with the necessity to use the serious creativity program in the university to be a part of educational thinking methods that contributes in creating generations of organized thinking and able to make creativity. This research aims to the following:

1- Making an examination for serious creativity skills.

2- Making a program according to the strategies of serious creativity.

3- Identifying the impact of serious creativity programs in developing creativity skills of female students at College of Education for Girls.

    The essential sample of research consists of (100) first stage female students/College of Education for Girls/ Tikrit University for the two experimental groups from both (History and Mathematic) departments of (25) female student for each group of the four groups. The sample was chosen in accordance with an exploratory study that was made to identify the level of serious creativity skills.  The program of serious creativity was made according to the five serious creativity strategies of De Bono which are (Concentration, Random Access, Alternatives, Challenge and Cropper). The honesty of program was conducted and a test for measuring serious creativity skills was made that consists of five influential and verbal positions, each position represents five skills of serious creativity (new concepts, new perceptions, new ideas, new alternatives and new creativities) and its honesty and affirmation was extracted.  The paragraphs of testing serious creativity skills was analyzed in two methods:

1. a) The method of extremist groups.
2. b) The method of paragraph relation with the total degree.

This test was applied upon the four groups and the two experimental groups (History and Mathematic) departments and were subjected to the sixteen lessons of two lessons in the week for eight weeks in the first course in the academic year (2012-2013); after applying the post test of serious creativity test and processing data by the statistics case SPss, the researcher has concluded the following conclusions:  There are statistical differences between the average of female student degrees in the test of serious creativity skills test between the two experimental groups in the pre and post test for the interest of the two experimental groups, especially the experimental group of mathematics and the skill of generating new concepts and the skill of generating new alternatives.