Volume : III, Issue : V, May - 2013

A Comparative Study of Creativity Among Under – Graduate Mathematical Gifted Boys and Girls

Nirupama Pathak

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Today, in the era of information technology, job market required highly skilled workers without gender discrimination. Expertise in information technology also requires higher level of skill in the field of mathematics’, which attracts many to opt for mathematics as one of the subjects of their study. Since, creativity amongst the boys and girls are different thus it is also expected in the case of mathematically gifted children. Keeping in the mind the above facts, the present study was conducted at Jabalpur in order to investigate the difference in relation between different aspects of verbal creativity of mathematical gifted boys and girls. The sample includes 158 boys and 119 girls of randomly selected under graduate students of the departments of mathematics of various higher educational institutes located at Jabalpur city. These students further evaluated by using three different tests of creativity and mental ability. The mean, standard deviation and student t–test were performed to analyze statistically significance difference between boys and girls. The finding reveals that boys differ significantly in all variable of verbal creativity from girls. The finding also reveals that girls excelled boys in fluency, flexibility and originality aspects of verbal creativity

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Nirupama Pathak A Comparative Study of Creativity Among Under-Graduate Mathematical Gifted Boys and Girls Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.V May 2013

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