Creative Thinking among Primary School First Year Students: A Comparative Study
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This study aims to compare the level of the creative thinking among first-grade students of primary schools who have attended kindergartens and who have not attended. The study used the descriptive approach, The Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement test (TCAM) by Torrance 1981 was used to assess motor creativity. It was applied on (124) children, (62 Boys and 62 Girls) in the study, and the children were then divided into two groups, the group that had attended kindergarten were 62 children (33 males and 29 females) and the group that had not attended were 62 children (33 males and 29 females) selected by using random sampling method, from several primary schools. The results showed that the level of creative thinking among children in the first-grade students of primary school is weak. Moreover, there are statistically significant differences between the average scores of children in the level of creative thinking according to the variable of the two groups attended and not attended kindergarten in the three skills (fluency, imagination and originality) in favor of a group attended. Whereas, there are no statistically significant differences in the level of creative thinking skills according to the gender variable (male -female). In addition to some of recommendations for developing creative thinking skills for talent students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Iraq.
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