Creativity and intelligence: Two twin inseparable sisters?
Abstract
The study here presented has been carried out within context of the Program for the attention of high ability students of Canary Islands. The aim was to analyze the existent relationship between creativity and intelligence studying the figure and verbal creativity among different profiles of students with high ability and non exceptional students. For this purpose, we selected a sample of 634 students from 1º to 6º of Primary grades from different areas (urban and rural) of the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
They were administered the Battery of Differential and General Aptitudes (BADyG, Yuste, 1992), the adaptation of the Test of Creative Thought of Torrance (TTCT, Torrance, 1974) and the Test of Evaluation of the Verbal Creativity (PVEC-4) both adapted tests and standardized for the Canarian school population. In a first phase, the students were classified in function of different profiles of intellectual exceptionality defined in the own legislation of the Autonomous Community of Canary Islands (BOCA, 2002) (gifted, academic talent, simple talent, mixed talents) and non exceptional students. The results showed that as much the gifted as the creative talents are characterized by a bigger creativity in comparison to the students that didnt present high capacities. Also, it was found that the figurative dimension of the creativity was more associated to the profile of giftedness, while in the case of the creative talent it was the verbal creativity.
Key Words: Creativity, intelligence, figure creativity, verbal creativity, gifted, talented youth.
Citación recomendada | Recommended citation
Jiménez, J. E., Artiles, C., Rodríguez, C., García, E., & y Julia Moraes, J. C. (2008) . Creativity and intelligence: Two twin inseparable sisters?. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 66(240). https://www.revistadepedagogia.org/rep/vol66/iss240/15
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Palabras clave | Keywords
Creativity, intelligence, figure creativity, verbal creativity, gifted, talented youth.
