A Survey Of The Technical Creativity Of Undergraduates

As an exploratory study of undergraduates' technical creativity, the paper discusses the implication of the terms "creativity" and "technical creativity", makes a probe into the influential factors to the development of creativity and technical creativity of people, and carries out an investigation to a large number of juniors from six universities of china with "Technical Creativity Scale" and "Creativity Attitude Survey" , in which the differences between majors, universities, genders and family backgrounds are treated as independent factors, to know undergraduates' learning motivation, interest and participation in scientific and technical activities, to understand their belief, outlook of value and attitude to creativity achievement, and to find out their capabilities for technical comprehension, mental folding, numerical creativity thinking and practical creativity thinking.The analysis of investigation result and test data suggests the following: (1) Undergraduates keeps great learning motivation and interest and participation in scientific activities but less interest and participation in technical activities; students majoring in science and engineering score higher than those majoring in literature and social science in the test, male students higher than female students, and the occupation of the tested students' parents is an influential factor; students from key universities show more interest and participate more technical activities than those from average universities; (2) By and large, the belief, outlook of value and attitude to creativity achievement are positive, and majors and genders make no significant effects; (3) The students majoring in science and engineering from key universities performedbetter in the technical comprehension and the mental folding tests than those from average universities, students majoring in science and engineering from average universities better than students majoring in literature and social science from key universities, and male students better than female; the occupation of the tested students' parents showed great influence; (4) The students from key universities made better performance than those from average universities in numerical creativity thinking test, students majoring in science and engineering better than those majoring in literature and social science , the occupation of the tested students' parents showed great influence; (5) The students majoring in literature and social science acted better than those majoring in science and engineering in the practical creativity test, students from key universities better than those from average universities, and the occupation of the tested students' parents showed great influence; (6) There is a significant positive relation between the scores of learning motivation and interest of samples and those of technical comprehension, mental folding, and numerical creativity of samples.Propose six measures helping undergraduates with the development of technical creativity based on the result of an investigation: (1) lay a solid intellectual foundationï¼›(2) train good personalityï¼›(3) open related innovative coursesï¼›(4) establish new idea, spark initial desireï¼›(5) construct innovation-oriented environmentï¼›(6) increase practical experience, enhance the capacity of doing it by hand.