Scamper Technique to promote creative thinking and learning the compound attack in fencing

Abstract

Creativity is an effective mean of reducing the cultural and scientific gap between nations. It is also a crucial factor in the progress of societies in all areas of human activity. There are many types of thinking, one of the most important is creative thinking. Revealing the creative thinking skills is very important, as possessing these skills has a positive impact on the entire educational process. The importance of this research in being one of the studies that is concerned about involvement of students in the learning process by using an unconventional technique, which may contribute to increasing their learning of offensive skills and developing the level of creative thinking. This study aimed to identify the effect of using SCAMPER on the creative thinking and the level of compound attack in fencing among female students. The researcher used the experimental method by using pre and post measurements for creative thinking level by using The Figural TTCT "Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking", and the post-measurement for compound attack, using two groups, experimental and control, on a sample of (51) second year female students on the Faculty of Physical Education, Sadat City University, (11) for survey study, (40) for basic study. The results showed that the level of creative thinking of the study sample was low. There were statistically significant differences between pre and post measurements for the experimental group in each of creative thinking abilities (originality, flexibility, detail perception, fluency), and the total sum of creative thinking in the direction of post-measurements. While for the control group there were statistically significant differences between pre and post measurements in flexibility only and statistically insignificant in each of creative thinking abilities (originality, detail perception, fluency), and the total sum of creative thinking. There were statistically significant differences in the post-measurements between the experimental and the control groups at the level of each of the abilities (originality, flexibility, detail perception, fluency) and the total sum of creative thinking, in the direction of experimental group.