SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO FLUENCY, FLEXIBILITY, ORIGINALITY AND ELABORATION

Abstract

Scientific Creativity plays a pivotal role for career progression of students pursuing education in science and technology.  In the present investigation an attempt was made to study the scientific creativity of secondary school male and female students in terms of Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration. A total of 100 students of class IX, studying in Government Schools of Mahendergarh were taken as a sample of the study by random sampling technique, out of which 50 were male and 50 were female students. The researcher used self-developed tool to study the scientific creativity of students. Data was analysed by calculating mean, S.D.s and t-test. Findings of the study indicates that male students were having higher scientific creativity in comparison to female students in the terms of fluency, flexibility and elaboration while in terms of originality both male and female students had similar scientific creativity.