Abstract:

Activities to improve students' problem-solving skills are not enough in the information age. Instead, there is a trend towards modern methods ensuring opportunity to multi-dimensional thinking. Due to this trend, students must be a creative problem solver that enables high-level thinking. It is expected that student creativity will be developed through creative problem-solving activities. We carried out the study by sampling method with a total of 72 students from the two provinces in the Black Sea region of Turkey selected by random. In the study, we used the one creative problems developed by Price (2006) as data collection tools. In analysing the data, the solutions of applied problems were investigated regardful of Mumford et al. (1991) The creative problem solving steps. Content analysis of qualitative research methods was conducted in the research. The data obtained were submitted to the views of two experts to reliability and validity of the study and correspondence percentage was calculated. As a result of the findings, we have found that the middle school students have some difficulties as they have faced with creative problems for the first time. We have determined that students have difficulties in the configuration step of the problems, in the steps of choosing categories and encoding information.

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