An examination of the relationship between creative thinking and academic achievements of secondary school students

Abstract EN

-he purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship between Creative Thinking ami Academic Achievements of Secondary School Students.

A total number of 256 students jXirticijXited in this study.

Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figurai [I] أس used to measure their creative potential and examine the relationship between creative thinking of secondary school students with students’ academic achievement The results revealed that the there is a signi ficant relationship between creative thinking and studentsر academic achievements.

However٠ the relationship could be altered when different aspects of creative thinking were examined and when academic achievement measure employed Pearson supported the findings.

Keywords: Creative thinking, academic achievement.

Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, Elaboration !،INTRODUCTION At the beginning of the nineteenth century the verb ،to create’ was rarely used.

Now a day’s creativity is increasingly gaining in important Professionals from all fields are becoming aware of its importance and the development of creative thinking.

In education, creative thinking varies from completely new ideas to new ways of considering and solving problems، It has been said that creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing, but the ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas، There is no one universally agreed definition of creativity but, by considering some of the writers in the field, it may be possible to replace the notion of ،knowing it when one sees it’ with something more s^cific سو perhaps more tangible [21- Creativity may suggest multiple meanings, from complementary to suspiciousness, ا3أ suggests that creativity (rang things that is characterized