Open AccessSelf-assessment Creativity among Students Who Show Different Tendencies to Spontaneous Application of Analogies
Author(s) -
Sanja Kaurin,
Zlatko Pavlović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
društvene i humanističke studije
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2490-3647
pISSN - 2490-3604
DOI - 10.51558/2490-3647.2021.6.4.335
Subject(s) - creativity , analogy , psychology , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , mathematics education , connection (principal bundle) , scale (ratio) , sample (material) , expression (computer science) , epistemology , social psychology , computer science , mathematics , paleontology , philosophy , chemistry , physics , geometry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist , biology , programming language
Applying analogies in teaching and learning can significantly improve their outcomes. It is pedagogically important to know the various factors on which depend the frequency and manner of application of analogies. Such factors include creativity. We can see the relationship between creativity and analogy from several angles. In this paper, we are dealing with the connection between self-assessment of creativity and the tendency to apply analogies in a pedagogical context. On a sample of 305 students, the Kaufman Creativity Domain Scale (K-DOCS) and inventory were applied to measure the propensity to spontaneously apply analogies. The results suggest that there is a connection between self-assessment of creativity and a tendency to apply analogies, but also that the nature of that connection is complex. The connection was registered with two areas of expression of creativity (personal-everyday and academic area), while the connection with other areas was not registered. The meaning and pedagogical significance of the obtained results were discussed.