The effectiveness of using the imaginative learning strategy in teaching design to develop creative thinking and achievement motivation among secondary school students

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the effectiveness of using the imaginative learning strategy in teaching the design unit to develop creative thinking and achievement motivation among fifth-grade middle school students. The study answered the following questions:

1. What is the effectiveness of teaching the reconstructed design, decoration, and ornamentation units (stimulating a sense of spatial depth, stimulating kinetic sensations, observing proportions, and balance) using the imaginative learning strategy in developing creative thinking among fifth-grade middle school students?
2. What is the effectiveness of teaching the reconstructed design, decoration, and ornamentation units (stimulating a sense of spatial depth, stimulating kinetic sensations, observing proportions, and balance) using the imaginative learning strategy in raising achievement motivation among fifth-grade middle school students?

The study group consisted of (81) fifth-grade middle school students at Al-Sajjad Secondary School for Boys/Al-Musayyab Education Department/General Directorate of Education in Babil Governorate. They were divided into two groups: one experimental group consisting of (41) students, and the other a control group consisting of (40) students. To achieve the research objectives, a set of tools was developed, including a creative thinking test, a measure of achievement motivation, a guide for art education teachers in the design, decoration, and ornamentation units, prepared according to the imaginative learning strategy, and a student activity booklet (sketchbook) for the units. The research results demonstrated the effectiveness of using the imaginative learning strategy in design in developing creative thinking and achievement motivation among fifth-grade middle school students. The imaginative learning strategy also had a significant impact on developing creative thinking and achievement motivation, with the effect size exceeding 0.8.