The Effects of Using a Guidance Activities Package Based on Torrance’s Creative Theory on Creative Thinking in Freelance Occupations of Mathayom Suksa III Students at Ban Kakorayong School in Surin Province

Abstract

          The purposes of this research were to (1) compare the levels of creative thinking in freelance occupations of the experimental group students before and after using a guidance activities package based on Torrance’s Creative Theory; and (2) compare the levels of creative thinking in freelance occupations of the experimental group students after the experiment and during the follow-up period. The sample consisted of 30 Mathayom Suksa III students of Ban Kakorayong school in Surin Province, obtained by simple random sampling. The employed research instrument comprised a guidance activities package based on Torrance’s Creative Theory consisting of 12 activities, and an assessment scale for creative thinking in freelance occupations, with reliability coefficient of .91. The statistics used for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The research findings revealed that (1) after using the guidance activities package, students in the experimental group increased their level of creative thinking in freelance occupations at the .05 level of statistical signifcance; and (2) no significant different was found between the experimental group students’ level of creative thinking in freelance occupations at the end of experiment and their counterpart level during the follow-up period.