بررسي و مقايسه ميزان توسعه شاخص هاي خلاقيت دانش آموزان دختر و پسر گروه سني 8 سال با مقياس تورنس با تاكيد برفعاليت هاي حركتي

The Study of Creativity of School Children (Aged 8) in Relation to Motor Activities Based on Torrance Scale

The present study aimed at determining degrees of improvement in creativity factors of male and female school children aged 8 with an emphasis on motor activities bayed on paul Torrance Scale. The investigation was one of a quasi-expermental nature carried out as a field method. The participants included a random sample of 360 students :180 students of whom (90 males and 90 females) were assigned as the experimental group and the remaining 180 were assigned as the control group with to treatment. Torrance test of Thinking, Creativity in Action and Movement (TCAM) as a reliable and valid measure of creativity was applied as the data collection tool to elicite information on creativity factors in the participants. The results manifested a significant differenc between the students in the experimental and control groups in terms of the three main factors of creativity, i.e. imagination, originality and fluency. Further analysis of the data implied that except for the fluency factor, there was a significant difference between the participants in the experimental and control groups in term of their originality and imagination based on Standard Torrance Scale.