The Impact of Hands-on Activities Integrating Design Thinking on the Creative Self-efficacy and Learning Performance of Junior High School Students: A Case of Producing Solar Battery Charger

Pin Hsiang Tseng*, Chen Yin Xu, Chi Cheng Chang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Design thinking can foster creativity in learners, and creative self-efficacy can be a measure of creativity. This study was to examine the impact of the solar charger hands-on activities integrating design thinking on the progress of the creative self-efficacy and learning performance of junior high school students. We integrated design thinking into the solar charger hands-on activities. Participants were 82 eighth grade junior high school students in Taipei. The instruments used in the study were the Design Thinking Scale, the Creative Self-Efficacy Scale, the Prior Knowledge Test, and the Learning Performance Test. A pretest of prior knowledge and a pretest of creative self-efficacy were administered before the teaching experiment, and a posttest of design thinking, creative self-efficacy, and learning performance were administered after the teaching experiment. Students’ creative self-efficacy and performance were enhanced by engaging in hands-on activities, but the design of the hands-on activities and delivery of activities needed to be improved. At the end of the paper, implications for theory and practice are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInnovative Technologies and Learning - 6th International Conference, ICITL 2023, Proceedings
EditorsYueh-Min Huang, Tânia Rocha
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages163-173
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031401121
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
EventProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2023 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 2023 Aug 282023 Aug 30

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14099 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2023
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period2023/08/282023/08/30

Keywords

  • charger
  • creative self-efficacy
  • design thinking
  • solar battery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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