Development of Project-Based Learning Instructional Model to Enhance Undergraduate Students’ Creativity Ability

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The present study had 3 primary objectives: 1) examine the factors affecting for undergraduate students’ creativity ability, 2) confirm the appropriateness of developed project-based learning instructional model to enhance undergraduate students’ creativity ability, and 3) study the results of implementing project-based learning model to enhance undergraduate students’ creativity ability. The research methodology was structured into three distinct phases: Phase I: studying the internal and external factors affecting students’ creativity ability gathering data through questionnaires administered to 150 undergraduate students and interviews conducted with 3 lecturers from Guangxi Normal University; Phase II: developing project-based instructional model for enhancing creativity ability based on instructional model development theory and the findings from Phase I, plus rigorous evaluation against four standards: utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy by 5 experts using an instructional model evaluation form; and Phase III: investigating the effectiveness of the developed instructional model – putting it into practice through lesson plans for experimentation. Data collection encompassed rubric scoring-based assessment of students’ project work. Statistical analysis techniques such as frequency, percentage calculations, means, standard deviations, interpretation, and content analysis were employed to analyze the collected data. The findings of this study can be summarized as follows: 1) The internal factors affecting for undergraduate students’ creativity ability were physical and psychological including students’ willingness to engage in learning activities and student’s self-confidence, motivation and external factors were social environment, materials, teaching methods and class size. 2) Project-based learning instructional model to enhance undergraduate students’ creativity ability consisted of 5 components i.e., principle and rationale, learning objectives, contents, methods of teaching and materials, and evaluation. After programme evaluation (utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy), such a model was 100% confirmed by 5 experts for further Implementation. 3) The result of implementing project-based learning instructional model found that, students’ creativity ability will be overall improved 80% at Good level by research hypotheses.