The Investigation of the Relationship between Teachers’ Creative Thinking Tendencies and Individual Innovativeness Characteristics

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between teachers' creative thinking tendencies and individual innovativeness characteristics. This study used correlational survey model and was carried out with 283 teachers from different branches working in Turkey. "Critical Thinking Dispositions Scale" developed by Özgenel and Çetin (2017), "Individual Innovativeness Scale" adapted into Turkish by Kılıçer and Odabaşı (2010) were used as data collection tools. In data analysis; descriptive statistics (arithmetic mean and standard deviation), differential statistics (t test and ANOVA), Pearson Product Moments Correlation Coefficient and simple linear regression analysis were used. The results show that teachers' creative thinking tendencies are at high level and individual innovativeness characteristics are in the "early adopters" and "early majority" categories. While teachers' creative thinking tendencies and individual innovativeness characteristics did not change significantly according to gender, it was determined that teachers who had 16 years and more experience had a higher level of creative thinking tendencies and individual innovative scores than teachers who had between 1-5 years. A moderate, positive and significant relationship was found to be between teachers' creative thinking tendencies and individual innovativeness characteristics.