The effects of intelligence games on the creative thinking skills of 6th grade students

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of mental and intelligence games on 6th garde level students' creative thinking skills. For this purpose, 32 mental and intelligence game trainings were given to students during 16 weeks and the effects of intelligence games on students' creative thinking skills were investigated. The research was gone on total of 70 students studying at sixth grade with 2 different branches at a public school in Bayburt during the fall semester of 2017-2018 academic year. Branches are randomly grouped as control and experimental groups by assignment. The semi-experimental method was used in the pre test- final test control group study. As a data collection tool; Torrance Creative Thinking Test (TCTT) Verbal-Shape Form-A was used. In accordance with the purpose of the study, TCTT was applied as a pretest to both experimental and control groups, then 32 different mental and intelligence games were played to the experimental group. During the application period, the control group wasn't interfered with any mental and intelligence games. At the end of the study, TCTT was applied as a final test for both groups. SPSS 25.0 package program was used to analyze the data. After the assumptions of the T-test were tested, paired groups t-test and independent groups t-test were used for the analysis of pre-tests and post-tests of the control and experimental groups with normal distribution. According to the findings of the final researches, no important difference was found between the pretest scores of the experimental and control groups, but there was an important difference between the post-test scores in favor of the experimental group. Also, no important difference was observed in the pretest-posttest analysis of the control group in paired t-test. According to the analysis of the pretest-posttest data of the experimental group, a significant difference was reached in favor of the last test. When the application results were examined, it was observed that the intelligence games course was very effective in developing students' creative thinking skills and contributed to the individual development of the students. Keywords: Intelligence Games, Creative Thinking, Game, Creativity