The purpose of this study is to examine what effect of page-break activities for picture
books by MeFOT has on preschooler creativity and difference in that activities according to
those preschooler gender, For the purpose, this researcher surveyed 45 young children.
The device used to measure those preschooler creativity is the Korean TTCT(Figure) B, an
adaptation by Kim Young Chae(2002) of the Torrance Test Creativity Thinking (TTCT,
revised in 1990) which was developed by Torrance(1962). MeFOT is the initials of
metacognitive four operations thinking that is a compound word, and is a thinking training
program that was designed by Park Young-tae to foster creativity. That denotes metacognitive
four operations thinking that combines temporal thinking and spatial thinking, which
respectively implies the flow of thinking and focuses on coming up with new ideas. There
are five different stages in it: question making, information creation, information association,
information sophistication and information reception. The page-break activities for picture
books refer to imagining what is likely to happen between pages of a picture book, namely
what is likely to be omitted in the book, and expressing it in drawing or writing. The study
started with the teacher training, followed by the pre-test, 6-week experimental treatments and
the post-test in order. Findings of the study can be summarized as follows. First, the
page-break activities for picture books by MeFOT is effective in improving younger
preschooler creativity as a whole and its sub-areas, or fluency, originality and elaborateness.
Second, the effect of page-break activities for picture books by MeFOT on younger
preschooler creativity as a whole and its sub-areas, or fluency, originality and elaborateness
are equal, irrespective of those preschooler gender.