Development and evaluation of the efficiency of a course on the development of creativity in the conditions of distance education
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https://doi.org/10.32405/2309-3935-2023-1(88)-58-66Keywords:
creativity, creativity training, online training, online learning, distance educationAbstract
Creativity development is an important part of nurturing giftedness. Through creativity is complex phenomenon, the multiple studies showed that creativity might be successfully enhanced through specialized training programs. However, most of these programs were designed for adults or college students and only few were focused on schoolchildren. Moreover, most of designed programs were delivered offline, while latest events like COVID pandemic and military conflict in Ukraine showed that sometimes online learning is the only option for educational process. In this study, we designed and evaluated the effectiveness of a new course aimed at developing creativity of secondary school students. This 14-hour synchronous online course was offered to secondary school students of Lyseum 15 of the city of Chernihiv. Thirty-five students completed the course consisting of online class sessions via Zoom platform, presentations, recommended books, articles and videos, and homework for independent study. Pre- and post- divergent thinking tasks, including Unusual Use of Object task were used to assess how the course influenced design and creativity outcomes. To ensure reliability of results we included control group, which received no treatment. We used Mann-Whitney test to evaluate the differences between control and treatment group and Wilcoxon test for comparing pre-post results. The findings revealed that divergent thinking may in fact be fostered within an online course. After training, participants were able to generate significantly more varying and creative ideas than before training. Further researches might be aimed on exploring different variables which may influence course effectiveness like level of emotional, cognitive and behavioral engagement, domain of participant’s interest etc.
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