Creativity enhances a standardized grade of literacy test and counter: Australia

However, the revolutionary study of the University of Southern Australia researchers shows that creativity plays a key role in academic success, suggesting that students who think outside the frame are more likely to be performed in literacy and counter.

This is an important finding, especially when the latest national assessment program – literacy data and counters (Naplan) show that one of the three Australian students lags behind in their skills or literacy.

Examining 637 performances by Australian students in a naplan, researchers have found that students who have worked well have also shown a higher level of creativity.

In fact, creativity was a better predictor of academic achievements than traditional predictors such as the average of grades (GPA) and personality traits such as conscientiousness.

Specifically, the study showed that greater flexibility in divergent thinking* was associated with the stronger outcomes filled with literacy while higher Mathematical Creativity ** He was associated with the stronger performance of the naplan.

Researcher Professor David Cropley says the findings are good news for teachers who seek to hire their students in learning through creativity.

“We see more and more as teachers find unique and interesting ways to cause curiosity among their students,” says Prof. Cropley.

“This may be as simple as stimulating an open and curious attitude towards new ideas in the class or so detailed as an interactive game of role to decipher the latest English text. It’s all that you think wide, looking at problems from different corners and flexible.

“What is important, this study causes a stereotype to confront creativity and academic achievements, which was a long misconception.”

The discoveries are contrary to the recent calls for the return to the education and learning of “back-to-bazik”, and Prof. Cropley said that creativity is crucial to building children’s abilities in literacy and mathematics.

“Schools should be encouraged to integrate creative thinking into their teaching strategies, especially in literacy and abundance, where we can show a clear connection between creativity and academic achievement,” says Prof. Cropley.

“Instead of treating creativity as separate from academic achievement, we must recognize it as a vital component of students’ success and find ways as teachers accept it as part of their access to teaching and learning.

“Creativity is also estimated at international standards such as the OECD program for an international assessment of students, our discoveries further enhance the need for schools to balance traditional learning with creative skills development.

“Schools should be safe: it is not one or access-creativity can be carried out in structured environments for school learning. But the understanding that creativity is related and can increase academic achievement and literacy and in the counter, it is very food to think.”

Notes:

*Higher flexibility in divergent thinking is the ability of a student to generate a wide range of ideas in different categories when solving problems or answering open -ended questions, such as “What would happen if people just told the truth?”

** Mathematical creativity is when students can find new solutions, recognize alternative approaches and think outside conventional methods of solving problems to respond to a problem such as: “How many different ways can you make number eight?”