Developmental trends of creativity: What twists of turn do boys and girls take at different grades?

Developmental trends of creativity: What twists of turn do boys and girls take at different grades?

• Lau, Sing Hong Kong Baptist University
• Cheung, Ping Chung Chinese University of Hong Kong

Creativity Research Journal, 22(3), 329-336, 2010

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

2010

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Divergent Thinking Self-Concept Perceived Creativity School-Children Middle Tests Art Psychology, Educational Psychology, Multidisciplinary

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

A sample of 2,476 Grade 4 to 9 Chinese school children was tested with the new electronic Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests. Among primary students, creativity scores rose from Grade 4 to 5 and then dropped from 5 to 6; and among secondary students, creativity scores rose from Grade 7 to 9. A drop from Grade 6 to 7 was also observed. Apart from these overall trends, different patterns of gender differences were found in primary and secondary grades. In Grade 4 to 6, boys scored higher than girls marginally on most creativity indexes. In Grade 7 and 8, girls excelled boys significantly on figural fluency, flexibility, uniqueness, and unusualness. In Grade 8, girls also scored higher on verbal flexibility. The gender differences were narrowed down again marginally in Grade 9.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 10400419

• 10.1080/10400419.2010.503543

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