Creativity among gifted and non-gifted students

• Authors: Maja Matrić , Matjaž Duh

Abstracts

EN

An overview of the literature on gifted students suggests that students can be gifted by showing intelligence and/or creative abilities. Whether teachers are able to recognize intelligent and/or creative students is a matter of being skilled and can have a tremendous impact on students’ course of education. In out study, we included students of Slovenian primary schools who were either recognized as gifted or non-gifted by their teachers. To find out what differences occur in the creativity levels of gifted and non-gifted students, their creativity levels were recorded using the LV1Test, measuring their artistic-creative and artistic-appreciative abilities. Data analysis reveals that the gifted students were more successful in gaining a higher average score on the test, as well as the majority of individual items in the test.

Keywords

EN

creativity; gifted; non-gifted; gender; elementary school; primary school

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 40
• Pages: 247-259

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Maja Matrić

author

Matjaž Duh

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2015.40.2.21

Biblioteka Nauki

2012182