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Building 21st Century Skills: IEL to evaluate intervention to promote creativity in children 
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Many training programs have aimed to improve creative thinking abilities in various
settings. The study of relevant literature revealed a relatively lower number of
creativity programs for children compared to those developed for adults. The current
work introduces a new and comprehensive nine-week long creativity intervention
program that was implemented (out of school-setting) in 8- to 11-year-old children of
socio-economically disadvantaged families in Turkey. The intervention program was
composed of nine activities: (1) Collection making, (2) Identity box, (3) Saving the
information in unusual ways, (4) Designing an object, (5) Drawing a sensory map, (6)
Designing a space, (7) Visual storytelling, (8) Exploring an imaginary planet, (9)
Finding creative and constructive solutions to a social conflict. Children (n= 159) were
randomly assigned to experimental and control groups and they took the Torrance Test
of Creative Thinking both prior to and after the intervention. Results showed that
compared to the control group, children in the experimental group had significantly
higher verbal fluency and originality scores at the post-test. These results provide
further evidence for the trainability of creativity and introduce a novel affordable
creativity intervention program that is feasible enough to be implemented in and out of
the school-setting.


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Reference:

Balci, F., Baykal, E., Goksun, T., Kisbu-Sakarya, Y. Yantac, E. (in press, 2022). Improving creative thinking in elementary school children from disadvantaged families: A randomized trial. Journal of Creativity Research.







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