Gabių vaikų (5-12 klasės) kūrybiškumo (verbalinio ir neverbalinio) ir mokymosi pasiekimų ypatumai

Abstract

School and Education in Lithuania is under reformation. One of the main purposes of education is to develop gifted and creative personality. The aim of investigation was to analyze verbal and non-verbal creativity, learning success and their interrelations among gifted children (secondary school, grades 5-12). TTCT / Test of Creative Thinking (non verbal and verbal) (by E.P.Torrance, 1974) was used as main evaluation tool. The most important parameters of creative thinking were: fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration. Also there was collected data about intelligence of gifted children (WISC-III / Intelligence scale for children (by D.Wechsler, 2002) and their average achievements at school. Research results of creative thinking were processed with the use of 14 version of SPSS Microsoft Word and Excel. 93 children of secondary school (5-12 grades) in different Lithuanian cities (Vilnius, Kaunas, Alytus, Raseiniai and others) were investigated using the methods above. There were tested 37 gifted children and 56 - as control group. The main result showed: Verbal and non-verbal creativity parameters (fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration) among: gifted children are with statistical significance higher than among children of control group. Parameters of verbal creativity among children have a positive correlation with their academic achievements (fluency r=0,473, p=0,000; flexibility r=0,4 p=0,000, originality r= 0,412, p=0,000, elaboration r= 0,460, p= 0,000). There are found no peculiarities of creativity in gender among gifted children.