Investigation of the imagery and creativity of the 7th grade students using guided discovery method

The aim of this study is to investigate the imagery and creativity of the 7th grade students using guided discovery method. The research group was made 77 (age=12.7922+0.52158) 7th grade students, 37 females and 40 males studying in Imam Hatip Secondary School, Konya province, Eregli county. To achieve the purpose of the research, adaptation-innovation inventory creativity scale and sport imagery questionnaire scale were used for data collection. Experimental design consisting of pre-test and post-test was used in the research during the research. Students were given experimental work for 10 weeks. In the analysis and assessment of the data, Kolmogorov Smirnov test, paried samples t test and two Way Anova for mixed measures test, were used and significance was taken as p<0.05. For the evaluation of the data and the determination of the calculated values, SPSS package program was used. As a result of this study; there was a significant difference between level for imagery and creativity of the 7th grade students in favor of the post-test according to the guided discovery method. It was found that the level of imagination and creativity of secondary school students participating in the experimental study showed a significant difference after the experiment; that is, in different treatment groups the repeated effects of the factors of repeated measures on imagination and creativity were meaningful.   Key words: Guided discovery, creativity, imagery.