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ERPA International Congress on Education, İstanbul, Turkey, 28 June - 01 July 2018, vol.48
The research aims to determine "the Impact of Scientific Creative Thinking Skills on Scientific Process Skills". Thus, the research was performed with 24 teacher candidates in the control group and 24 teacher candidates in the experimental group in the second class of the Department of Science Teaching in a university in Istanbul Province. In the experimental group of the research, the laboratory program to be designed by the researchers on the basis of scientific discussion and research; and in the control group, the conventionally designed laboratory program were applied for an academic semester. The research data was gained through "Scientific Creativity Test" to be developed by Hu and Adey [14] and adapted by Kadayifci [16]; "Scientific Process Skills Test" to be developed by Okey, Wise and Burns, and adapted by Geban, Askar and Ozkan into Turkish. The conclusions to be reached by the research are in favour of the experimental group and the last application, and it has positive impact on the opinions of the teacher candidates related with the development of the scientific creativity skills.