Scientific-creative thinking and academic achievement

Autor: Rosario Bermejo, María José Ruiz, Carmen Ferrándiz, Gloria Soto, Marta Sainz
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Revista de Estudios e Investigación en Psicología y Educación, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 64-72 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2386-7418
DOI: 10.17979/reipe.2014.1.1.24
Popis: The aim of this work is to study the relationship between scientific-creative thinking construct and academic performance in a sample of adolescents. In addition, the scientific-creative thinking instrument’s reliability will be tested. The sample was composed of 98 students (aged between 12-16 years old) attending to a Secondary School in Murcia Region (Spain). The used instruments were: a) the Scientific-Creative Thinking Test designed by Hu and Adey (2002), which was adapted to the Spanish culture by the High Abilities research team at Murcia University. The test is composed of 7 task based in the Scientific Creative Structure Model. It assesses the dimensions fluency, flexibility and originality; b) The General and Factorial Intelligence Test (IGF/5r; Yuste, 2002), which assess the abilities of general intelligence and logic reasoning, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and spatial reasoning; c) Students’ academic achievement by domains (scientific-technological, social-linguistic and artistic) was collected. The results showed positive and statistical significant correlations between the scientific-creative tasks and academic achievement of different domains.
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