%0 Journal Article %T An Investigation upon The Relationship Between Linear Developments and Creative Writing Skills of Secondary School Students %A Selma Ta£¿kesen %A Serap Uzuner Yurt %J - %D 2018 %X The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between the visual development levels and creative writing skills of secondary school 5th class students. The research was carried out with 35 (22 female/ 13 male) secondary school students, who were at the age of 10-11 and chosen via the simple random sampling method, in Erzincan province in 2017-2018 educational year. The data of the study were handled with the "image evaluation form" and "creative writing scale". To determine whether the linear developments and creative writing skills of the students differed according to gender or not, the independent sampling t-test was used. The correlation test was used to determine the relationship between the creative writing skills and linear development levels. According to the findings of the study, it was found out in the study that students had moderate creative writing ability; in the same way, that students had moderate linear improvement. No significant difference between linear development levels of students according to gender was encountered; moreover, no significant difference was found between creative writing skills according to gender. A low level of positive correlation between linear development and creative writing skills was also encountered. Consequently, it can be referred that gender is not a factor in the linear development levels of students and in the creative writing skills; there is a linear relationship between the linear development and the creative writing skills in the low and the positive %K £¿izgisel geli£¿im %K dilsel geli£¿im %K yarat£¿c£¿ yazma %U http://dergipark.org.tr/befdergi/issue/41616/437297