The Effectiveness of Design Thinking in Enhancing Grade 2 Students’ Artistic Creativity
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This article aimed to investigate the efficacy of Design Thinking in enhancing the artistic creativity of 80 Grade 2 students in Xiamen, China. Using a quasi-experimental, pre-test-post-test control group design, two classrooms were randomly assigned to either a traditional, teacher-centered instructional model or a student-centered model based on the Design Thinking framework. Artistic creativity was quantitatively assessed using a scoring rubric. Paired-samples t-tests confirmed that both methods yielded significant pre-to-post-test improvements. However, an independent-samples t-test on post-test scores revealed that the Design Thinking group (M = 17.73, S.D. = 0.82) scored statistically significantly higher than the traditional group (M = 17.28, S.D. = 1.11), t(71.66) = -2.067, p = .042. The findings demonstrate that although structured practice is beneficial, Design Thinking exhibits greater effectiveness in cultivating higher-order creative competencies, particularly fluency and flexibility, due to its iterative and problem-solving-oriented learning process. This study provides empirical evidence for the integration of Design Thinking into primary art education to better foster the innovative skills required for 21st-century learners.
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