Integrating Design Thinking in a Creative Teaching Course: Effects on Student Teacher’s Self-efficacy in Creative Teaching

CHEN, HSIU LING
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology of Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education Associate Professor
Email：shirley@mail.ntust.edu.tw

CHEN, TING YAO
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology of Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education Professor
Email：iris850216@gmail.com

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Abstract

This research assesses student teachers’ self-efficacy in creative teaching in an integrated elective course on design thinking. Research participants are 28 student teachers in the elective course in a university in northern Taiwan. This study features a single-group pretest-posttest research design and applies The Scale of Self-efficacy in Creative Teaching as its research instrument. This teaching experiment spans across a total of 18 weeks. T-test analysis of the students’ performances in the pretest and posttest is conducted to engage in a quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of the course in promoting among the participants their self-efficacy in creative teaching. Semi-structured interviews are conducted at the end of the course. The research results show that the course significantly improves among the student teachers their self-efficacy in creative teaching.

Keywords :design thinking, self-efficacy in creative teaching, student teachers