Vidurinės mokyklos sustiprinto mokymosi profilio mokinių kūrybiškumo ypatumai
Creativity Features of Senior Pupils in The Context of Specialization of Education

Summary/Abstract: School and Education in Lidiuania is under reformation. One of the main purposes of education is developing creative personality. The term creativity is quite wide, multilateral and involving the whole personality. Somewhat more often creativity is associated with psychological features, which help to create, invent bodi new and valuable. This artide will discuss creativity features of senior pupils in die context of specialization of education. 609 pupils were tested: 264 pupils of general education, 100 senior pupils (age from 12 to 18 years) - group of science specialization, 100 - humanitarian specialization, 145 -art oriented specialization. Methods used in the research: assignments of creative (divergent) diinking (TTCT) by E. P. Torrance (1974): visual (non verbai) and verbai and Personality creativity ąuestionnaire by V. Petrulis (1988, 1991). Research results of creative diinking were processed with the use of SPSS, Microsoft Word and EXCEL. Condusions: Parameters reflecting pupil creativity are higher with statistical significance in dasses specializing in different spheres (sciences, humanities or arts) ramer man those of pupils learning in general education non-specialized dasses. 1. Structural peculiarities (verbai and non verbai) of separate creative thinking parameters have been found in pupil groups specializing in different spheres. 2. No statistically significant differences of pupil personality creativity parameters were determined betvveen groups of different age periods (different school years). 3. Only statistically significant differences in several individual parameters of creative thinking betvveen boy and giri groups in humanitarian specialization, girls have higher creative thinking results than boys in the verbai scale of "fluency" and non verbai - in "originality" and "elaboration". In our opinion, in dasses specializing in certain spheres, teenager creativity develops more successfully.

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