TÜRKİYE’DE ÜNİVERSİTEYE GİRİŞ SINAVI TÜRLERİNE GÖRE FARKLI ÜNİVERSİTELERDEKİ ÖĞRENCİLERİN YARATICILIKLARININ DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Yaratıcılık, en gerekli ve değerli insan yeteneklerinden biridir. Temel bir bakış açısıyla incelendiğinde, çoğu zaman eğitimcilerin, sınıftaki öğrencileri yaratıcı düşünmeye teşvik etmeleri beklenir ya da istenir. Fakat bu amacın gerçekleştirilmesi için öncelikle başka bir faktörün incelenmesi gerekmektedir. Eğitimcilerin yaratıcılık tanımı ve kriterleri ile öğrencilerin yaratımları örtüşmekte midir? Bu makalede, Guilford’un (1950, 1967a) ıraksak düşünme, merak, akıcılık, esneklik, detaylandırma ve özgünlük kavramları bağlamında, AYT (Alan Yeterlilik Testi) ya da ÖYS (Özel Yetenek Sınavı) ile Güzel Sanatlar ya da Sanat ve Tasarım Fakülte’lerinin Grafik Tasarım, Görsel İletişim Tasarımı ve İletişim Tasarımı Bölümlerinin birine giren öğrencilerden hangilerinin ilerideki eğitim dönemleri içerisinde daha yaratıcı oldukları irdelenmiştir. Bu doğrultuda, aynı profesörün 2018-2020 yılları arasında Türkiye’de birçok farklı üniversitede ders verdiği öğrencilerinin çalışmalarından seçmeler yapılmış ve Guilford’un yaratıcılık kavramlarına göre yeniden değerlendirilerek kümelenmiştir. Sonuç olarak, AYT ile giren öğrencilerin yetenek sınavı ile giren akranlarına göre daha az meraklı, akıcı, esnek, ayrıntılı ve özgün oldukları tespit edilmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Yaratıcılık, Tasarım eğitimi, J. P. Guilford, Alan yeterlilik testi (AYT), Özel yetenek sınavı (ÖYS)

ASSESSING STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY IN DESIGN EDUCATION AT DIFFERENT UNIVERSITIES IN TURKEY THROUGH THEIR ADMISSION EXAMINATION TYPES

Creativity is a wanted and desirable human skill. When examined through the viewpoint of a fundamental exertion, much of the time, educators are asked or urged to encourage creative thinking in the classroom. However, do the educators’ definition and criteria of creativity match up with students’ creations? In this article, the question whether students who take the national entrance examination or who take the aptitude tests to study at university are more creative in the sense of Guilford’s (1950, 1967a) concepts of divergent thinking, curiosity, fluency, flexibility, elaboration and originality was elaborated. In order to achieve that aim, selections of works of the same professor’s students when he was teaching at several different universities between 2018-2020 in Turkey have been chosen and clustered as re-evaluated according to the adoptions of Guilford’s concepts of creativity. In the end, it was found out that students who take the national entrance examination are more divergent in their thinking while being less curious, fluent, flexible, elaborate and original than their peers who take the aptitude tests.

Keywords:

Creativity, Design education, J. P. Guilford, Area efficiency test (AYT), Aptitude test (ÖYS),

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