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The main goal of this research was to study the effects of using the art education on creative thinking by
using worksheets, and there were two subordinate objectives including 1) to study the development of ideas from
learned tasks in creating art works, and to compare the achievement of the idea development from the use of art
instructional worksheets as well as the art skills before and after the experiment. The participants in this study
were 88 grade-six students. The research instruments consisted of art tasks for grade 6 students in the form of
worksheet. In addition, the worksheets covered three units including unit 4 (Creative Materials Matters in
Science), unit 5 (My Village) and unit 6 (Planet Earth Hero). Overall, there were 7 worksheets including
Worksheet 1 (Color Hot Cold Cake), Worksheet 2 (Gradient Drawing Activity), Worksheet 3 (Drawings and
Short Stories), Worksheet 4 (Drawing Topic around the School), Worksheet 5 (Creative Activities Topics in the
Bazaar), Worksheet 6 (Cosmic and Space Drawing Activities) as well as Worksheet 7 (Activity Creating
Children's Day). According to data analysis, SPSS/PC+ (Statistical Package for Social Sciences/Personal
Computer Plus) was used to analyze data for percentage, mean and standard deviation. The data of general
characteristics of respondents indicated that the majority of respondents in overall was 31.81% which could be
separately explained as male (60%), female (68.19%) and female (28.8%) in the class 6/1, 6/2, and 6/3
respectively. Moreover, it was showed that the grade level of the overall respondents was 10.22% having 30
students in class 6/1 (34.10%), followed by 29 students in class 6/2 and 6/3 which had an equal amount of 32.95%.
These students are encouraged to develop their creative thinking by using the worksheets, and their creative
development values were compared afterward. The results revealed that there was a high level of the before and
after development of creative thinking. Noticeably, after providing instructional worksheets, there was a moderate
level of fluency in thinking, a high level of flexibility in thinking, a high level of originality as well as a moderate
level of elaboration. |
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