Resarch on creative thinking skills of students and their perceptual learning style preferences

In this research, creative thinking skills of secondary school students and their perceptual learning style preferences has been analyzed. This research topic also involves variables of age, gender, number of siblings, educational level of parents. Scanning model has been used in this research. 303 secondary school students who are studying at degrees of 5,6,7,8 have been participated in this research. In order to determine demographic variables Personal Knowledge Document, to specify creative thinking skills of students Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) Verbal and Formal Module A and to find out their perceptual learning style preferences Perceptual Learning Style Preference Questionnaire by Reid have been used. In order to analyze of two groups comparision research datas Mann Whitney U test, three and more groups comparisons Bonferroni correction Kruskal Wallis H test have been used. Relationship between creative thinking skills and perceptual learning style preferences have been examined by Correlation analyze. Profiles of creative thinking skills of students and their learning style preferences presented. As a result, there is an important statistical discrepancy between creative thinking skills of students depends on age, gender, number of siblings, educational level of parents. There is an important statistical difference between student's perceptual learning style preferences depend on age and educational level of father but there is not important statistical difference on gender, number of siblings and educational level of mother. It has been showed that there is a statistical difference between creative thinking skills of students along with their perceptual learning style preferences in some lower dimensions. Key Words: creative thinking, perceptual learning, student, creativity