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The development of students' scientific creativity has become one of the key goals of the learning and teaching process. Therefore, it is of great importance to research the factors that affect the scientific creativity of students, especially in the young age group. This study also aims to identify the factors that influence the level of scientific creativity of high school students. The research used the "Test of Scientific Creativity" adapted to Turkish by Deniş-Steeliker and Balım (2012) developed by Hu and Adey (2002) as a data collection tool and the "Semi-Structured Conversation Form" consisting of open-end questions. This research aimed at determining the current situation and based on the quality data is an example of the event study. For the purpose of determining the participants of the study, sample selection methods were used in contrary case samples. The study included 32 high school students from students who studied at a secondary school in the province of Konya, selected according to the scientific creativity test scores. The quality data obtained was evaluated using the visual analysis method and student expressions were interpreted under three main topics: awareness of the nature of science, activities related to the course of science, support and guidance of families. The analysis of the data determined that the awareness of the students about the nature of science, the variety and frequency of activities they perform outside the school and in the school, the support they have shown to them about the subjects of science of their families and their guidelines on this subject are factors that positively influence the scientific creativity of students. According to these findings, in order to enrich students’ scientific creativity, it may be recommended to increase their awareness of the nature of science, to participate more actively in the courses of science and to participate more frequently in activities that include group studies.

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