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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Relating creativity to achievement

Overview

  • Influence: Relating creativity to achievement
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Creativity is the bringing together two or more ideas in a novel way and this influence relates creativity to a student's intelligence.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 5
  • Number of studies: 269
  • Number of students: 98,458
  • Number of effects: 1,618
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.40
  • Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Prufrock Journal Kim USA Can Only Intelligent People Be Creative? A Meta-Analysis 2005 Relationship between creativity and achievement 21 45,880 447 0.35
Creativity Research Journal Ma Taiwan The effect size of variables associated with creativity: A meta-analysis 2009 Creativity on school performance and achievement 111 0 372 0.33
Journal Bimbingan dan Konseling Borneo Purtri, Ahman, & Yudha Indonesia Meta analisis: Hubungan kreativitas dan achievement. 2021 Creativity and achievement 11 0 11 0.64
Stata Journal Halliburton-Beatty & Simms USA Meta-Analysis of Effect of Creativity on Achievement 2013 Creativity and achievement 6 0 6 0.25
Journal of Educational Psychology Gajda, Karwowski, & Begheto Poland Creativity and academic achievement: A meta-analysis.  1997 Relationship between creativity and achievement 120 52,578 782 0.45
TOTAL/AVERAGE 269 98,458 1,618 0.40
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