Curriculum Studies in Teacher Education & Development

Curriculum Studies in Teacher Education & Development

Investigating the Effectiveness of Task-based Instruction in Fostering Student-teachers’ Creativity

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Somaye Ghazi 1
Morteza Karami 2
Samad Izadi 3
refaeil azadian 4
1 Noshahr City Education Department, Lecturer, Farhangian University, Noshahr, Iran,
2 Department of Curriculum Studies and Instruction, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3 Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and social sciences, university of Mazandaran ,Babolsar, Iran
4 Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jcsted.2025.505229.1014
Abstract
The present study investigates the application of a Four-Component Instructional Design (4C/ID) model in teaching the Internship course to foster students' creativity and compares its effectiveness with conventional teaching methods. This research is applied and quasi-experimental, using a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population included all eighth-semester students at Farhangian University in Mazandaran Province during the 2021-2022 academic year, and random cluster sampling was used for sampling. A 16-session educational course was designed and implemented for the students using a task-based approach and based on the four-component model. After the course, to assess the effectiveness of the four-component model in fostering students' creativity compared to conventional Internship teaching environments, a researcher-made and standardized tool was used, and the experimental and control groups were compared in terms of creativity levels in the teaching process. Statistical results showed a significant difference in the mean variables between the control and experimental groups. These results indicate the positive impact of task-based instruction and the four-component model in fostering students' creativity in the teaching process.
Keywords
Task-based instruction
Four-component model
Fostering creativity
Student-teachers
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