RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO ACHIEVE DESIGN TASKS AND CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS

Creative thinking provides students to solve complex problems, through searching for new learning ways in educational activities. This study aimed to reveal higher education students' creative thinking potentials with educational activities. The participant students were involved in achieving design tasks which were the course subject as closed-ended and open-ended task activities. Regarding the results, it was found a relationship significantly between students’ creative thinking and open-ended task scores. The regression analysis showed that open-ended task activity encourages students' creative thinking skills positively. The present result indicated that the open-ended task design activity play a considerable role to reveal the students' creative thinking skills. By this way, this study concluded that open-ended task design activities concerning the curriculum might encourage and support students' creative thinking potentials in higher education and suggested to implement students the open-ended tasks in the education.