THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE THINKING OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CHILDREN THROUGH CREATIVE ACTIVITIES BASED ON THE HIGHSCOPE CONCEPT OF KINDERGARTEN 3 STUDENTS

Abstract

The purposes of this research included: 1) to develop creative thinking of early childhood children in kindergarten 3 obtained from creative activities based on the Highscope concept to pass criteria with score of not less than 70% out of full score and students passed the criteria at least 70% of the total number of students; 2) to measure creative thinking of early childhood children in kindergarten 3 in fluent thinking, flexible thinking, initiative thinking and elaborative thinking by using 12 activities obtained from creative activities based on the Highscope concept. The target group was 33 students in Kindergarten 3 in Semester 2 of academic year 2020 in Udomporn Kindergarten School under the Private Education Commission Office Region 2. They were selected through purposive sampling method. It was One Shot Case Study pre-experimental research. The tools used in this research included: 1) creative activity plan based on the Highscope concept, with the total number of 12 plans, 12 activities; 2) early childhood creative activity test form in 4 aspects namely 1 fluent thinking, 2 flexible thinking, 3 initiative thinking and 4) elaborative thinking. The statistics used for data analysis comprised percentage, mean and standard deviation (S.D.). The research results were as follows. 1) The overall mean score of students’ creative thinking based on the Highscope concept was at 80.27 or  80.27 % and 30 out of 33 students or 90.91% passed the criteria that was higher than the set criteria. When it was  considered by aspect, it was found as follows: the first aspect, fluent thinking with average score of 20.33, or 81.32 %; the second aspect, flexible thinking with average score of 19.85, or 79.40 %; the third aspect, initiative thinking with average score of 19.94, or 79.76 %; the fourth aspect, elaborative thinking with average score of 20.15 or 80.60 %. 2) The creative thinking of early childhood children obtained from 12 activities in the Highscope concept was at the highest level (= 4.92, S.D. = 0.15).