TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental trends of creativity
T2 - What twists of turn do boys and girls take at different grades?
AU - Lau, Sing
AU - Cheung, Ping Chung
N1 - This research was supported by a Quality Education Fund (QEF) grant to Sing Lau and Ping Chung Cheung.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - A sample of 2,476 Grade 4 to 9 Chinese school children was tested with the new electronic Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests. Among primary students, creativity scores rose from Grade 4 to 5 and then dropped from 5 to 6; and among secondary students, creativity scores rose from Grade 7 to 9. A drop from Grade 6 to 7 was also observed. Apart from these overall trends, different patterns of gender differences were found in primary and secondary grades. In Grade 4 to 6, boys scored higher than girls marginally on most creativity indexes. In Grade 7 and 8, girls excelled boys significantly on figural fluency, flexibility, uniqueness, and unusualness. In Grade 8, girls also scored higher on verbal flexibility. The gender differences were narrowed down again marginally in Grade 9.
AB - A sample of 2,476 Grade 4 to 9 Chinese school children was tested with the new electronic Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests. Among primary students, creativity scores rose from Grade 4 to 5 and then dropped from 5 to 6; and among secondary students, creativity scores rose from Grade 7 to 9. A drop from Grade 6 to 7 was also observed. Apart from these overall trends, different patterns of gender differences were found in primary and secondary grades. In Grade 4 to 6, boys scored higher than girls marginally on most creativity indexes. In Grade 7 and 8, girls excelled boys significantly on figural fluency, flexibility, uniqueness, and unusualness. In Grade 8, girls also scored higher on verbal flexibility. The gender differences were narrowed down again marginally in Grade 9.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955601289&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400419.2010.503543
U2 - 10.1080/10400419.2010.503543
DO - 10.1080/10400419.2010.503543
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:77955601289
SN - 1040-0419
VL - 22
SP - 329
EP - 336
JO - Creativity Research Journal
JF - Creativity Research Journal
IS - 3
ER -
