An Explanatory Sequential Mix Methods Approach to Understanding of the University Art Students and Art Education with Respect to Creativity

The study, aiming to determine the creativity of the art students at universities in Turkiye and evaluation of the art education with respect to improvement of the creativity, has designed as an explanatory sequential mix method. The sample, selected using convenience sampling method, consists of 280 university students having been educated at the the departments of art at the universities in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. The research design includes the collection of the quantitative data firstly through “How creative are you?” scale and the collection of qualitative data through questionnaire, analyzed to explain and clarify the results of the quantitative data collected at the first phase. It has been concluded that more than half of the university art students in Turkey are above average in terms of creativity. However, The findings on the non-existence of the exceptionally creative art student or too few very creative ones take attention. The results of the qualitative data indicate that the components of the creative theory such as knowledge, intelligence, motivation and environment, have been stated to be way of educating the university art students as more or exceptionally creative.