Recently creative personality education has been emphasized as an important
factor in educating students as new leaders of the future society. This study in
this context purposed to examine the educational effects in terms of improving
creative personality of the students participated in this case study which was
designed and implemented by a PBL(Problem-based learning) based design
education class to 21 elementary students during 16 weeks (2hours a week) as an
after-school program. The PBL based design education was an integrated
teaching-learning approach combining the characteristics of ‘design education’
(practicality, design process, and self-directed learning process) and those of PBL
(authentic task, problem-solving process, and collaborative learning environments).
The results of this study were analyzed from the data collected from ‘Creative
Personality Scale (CPS),’ ‘interviews,’ and ‘students’ outputs (works).’ and
presented that over all, all the sub-categories of creativity and personality scales
were improved, and especially, imagination and curiosity, the sub-categories of
creativity, and self-confidence and eduratnce as the sub-categories of personality
were distinctive. The study, after all, showed the potential of the PBL based
design education program as an effective teaching-learning approach for improving
creative personality of the students within broader and diverse environments of
learning.