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- Title
Creativity and Academic Performance of Primary School Children.
- Authors
Bano, Amir; Naseer, Naila; Zainab
- Abstract
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between creativity and academic achievement of fifth grade primary school children. The study was delimited in the Quetta city. Population of the study was consisted of 5th graders of Urdu Medium Government High Schools. A total number of two hundred and fifty seven children (68% boys and 32% girls) were selected through purposive sampling technique. Creativity Rating Checklist (CRC) was developed after reviewing various studies on creativity to identify the key attributes of creative children. Final instrument was administered through personal contact. Academic performance of students was investigated through test-papers of the academic subjects developed by the District Education Authority Quetta for 5th grade promotion examination. The subject-wise and aggregate scores acquired by the students were used to measure their academic achievement. A pilot study was also conducted on 5th grade students of Government High School Jinnah Town, Quetta. The data was analyzed in the form of Pearson Correlation. The findings of the study indicated significant positive relationship between creativity and academic achievement of students. It was recommended that more longitudinal studies may be conducted on a larger sample with different other social and socio-economic variables i.e. income level, age, gender differences, teaching methodologies, class environment etc.
- Subjects
QUETTA (Pakistan); ACADEMIC achievement; SCHOOL children; PRIMARY education; CREATIVE ability
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS), 2014, Vol 34, Issue 2, p597
- ISSN
2074-2061
- Publication type
Article