Creative Thinking Skills Included in the Content of Evaluation Questions in the Curricula of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ali Tared Aldossari ()

International Journal of Education and Practice, 2021, vol. 9, issue 3, 520-531

Abstract: The current study aimed to investigate the assessment of creative thinking skills as a part of the evaluation questions set in the well-developed Islamic Education curricula of the first intermediate grade in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the academic year 2020-21. To achieve this goal, an analysis card was prepared for analyzing these questions as a tool in the targeted curricula, namely Tawhid, Hadith, Tafseer and Fiqh by ensuring psychometric properties. The analysis card included 29 sub-skills, distributed into four main areas of creative thinking: fluency, flexibility, originality and the use of details and elaboration. The findings of the study showed low inclusion rates of creative thinking skills in the evaluation question content in the targeted curricula. In light of these findings, the study recommends educational decision-makers and those in charge of planning, preparing, evaluating and developing Islamic education curricula to reconsider the assessment questions of lessons and study units in terms of creative thinking skills. It is essential to review the process of designing and preparing more knowledge-based content and set related evaluation questions, subject to accurate and purposeful scientific methodology.

Keywords: Content of evaluation questions; Creative thinking skills; Descriptive analytical approach; Curriculum; Evaluation questions; Islamic education; Teaching methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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