Intelligent Education Management on Encouraging Creative Habits for Grade 4 Undergraduates in Yunnan Province, China

ABSTRACT

The objectives of this study were to 1) investigate the efficiency of an intelligent education management platform on encouraging the creative thinking habits of Grade 4 undergraduates in Yunnan Province, China, 2) compare students' achievements before and after learning through intelligent education management platform on encouraging the creative thinking habits, and 3) examine students' satisfaction of using intelligent education management platform on encouraging the creative thinking habits. The sample comprised 30 Grade 4 undergraduates in Yunnan Province, China, selected through purposive sampling. The instruments used for collecting the data were 1) an intelligent education management platform on encouraging the creative thinking habits for Grade 4 undergraduates in Yunnan Province, China, for advancing learning achievement, a student’s pretest and a post-test, and a teacher satisfaction form. The statistical measures used to examine the data were percentages, mean, standard deviation, and the dependent-samples t-test. The results showed that 1) the efficiency of the intelligent education management platform on encouraging the creative thinking habits for Grade 4 undergraduates in Yunnan Province, China was 82.07/81.67, which was higher than the criteria set. 2) The post-test scores of the students who studied through the intelligent education management platform on encouraging the creative thinking habits were 81.67, SD 3.73, which indicated higher scores than those in the pretest of 40.80, SD 5.38, and the t-test between the pre-test and post-test was 35.01 at a significant level of .05. 3) The students’ satisfaction with the intelligent education management platform in encouraging creative thinking habits for Grade 4 undergraduates in Yunnan Province, China, received a high satisfaction level as a whole at an average of 4.49.