Presenting a model for increase creativity of high school students of Tehran city

Subject Areas : Educational Science

Soodabeh Sadat Moosavi ¹ , Masoumeh Oladian ² , MohammadNaghi Imani ³

1 - PhD Student. Department of Management, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Roodehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roodehen, Iran

Received: 2020-05-31 Accepted : 2020-10-27 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Creativity, Students, high school,

Abstract :

Present research aim to presenting a model for increase creativity of high school students of Tehran city. This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The research population in qualitative section was faculty members of Islamic Azad University Tehran province and in quantitative section was high school students district 4 of Tehran city with number of 1649 people. The research sample in qualitative section was 50 people who were selected by purposive sampling method and in quantitative section was 308 people who were selected by simple random sampling method. Data were collected with the help of background review, interview with experts and researcher-made questionnaire (21 items), that reliability of the questionnaire was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method 0.86. Data were analyzed by methods of one sample t-test, exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and LISREL software. The findings showed that according to the opinions experts, among seven factors of individual, school, social, physical environment, teaching-learning environment, educational and family, only three factors of individual, family and school was influenced on creativity. Also, the results of structural equation modeling showed that among the mentioned three factors, individual and school factors influenced on creativity, respectively and the model had a good fit. Other findings showed that students' creativity is lower than average. Regarded to the findings via improving individual and school factors and related indicators can be increased the creativity of high school students.