STUDY OF GENDER DIFFERENCE IN CREATIVITY IN RELATION TO MATHEMATICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Nirupama Pathak; Dr. Raina Tiwari

Volume : X, Issue : I, January - 2020

STUDY OF GENDER DIFFERENCE IN CREATIVITY IN RELATION TO MATHEMATICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Nirupama Pathak, Dr. Raina Tiwari

Abstract :

Education holds a prominent place in conditioning and shaping the personality of an individual. The purpose of education is to development of individual for solving various problem of day to day life. Descriptive survey method was used to study the creativity of the mathematically gifted students of higher secondary school. The final samples after screening on the basis of total CGPA and grade consisted of 54 mathematically gifted students and 68 mathematically non–gifted students with the help of stratified random sampling. Verbal Test of Creative Thinking by Baquer Mehdi and mathematical gifted and non–gifted criterion used to collect data. Results of the study revealed that there is no statistically significant gender difference exist between Boys and Girls in relation to giftedness in mathematics and in all the variables of verbal creativity.