Scientific Creativity and High Ability: Gender and academic level differences
<p> The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of gender and educational level on scientific creativity among gifted/talented students. A cohort of creatividad científica y alta habilidad: diferencias de género y nivel educativo 78 secondary school students from 12 to 16 year...
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Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca,
2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | <p> The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of gender and educational level on scientific creativity among gifted/talented students. A cohort of creatividad científica y alta habilidad: diferencias de género y nivel educativo 78 secondary school students from 12 to 16 years old participated in this research. The scientific creativity was measured using the Creative Scientific Ability Test (Sak & Ayas, 2011) designed for secondary school students from 11 to 14 years old. Its theoretical framework sets up the measurement of a three dimensional structure: general creative abilities (fluency, flexibility and creativity), scientific creative abilities (hypothesis generation, hypothesis testing and evidence evaluation) and scientific knowledge. This test has the right adequate psychometric properties with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.848 (Sak & Ayas, 2013). Results indicated that male students scored significantly higher in a task named <em>Interaction Graph </em>which measures hypothesis generation in interdisciplinary science. The analysis also showed that students involved in upper education levels scores significantly higher in general fluency and in the task called <em>The Food Chain </em>which measures evidence evaluation in the area of ecology.</p> |
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| Item Description: | 0214-3402 10.14201/aula2015214962 |