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SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE AND CREATIVITY A CORRELATION STUDY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.

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Sumithramma

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Creativity encompasses the ability to discover new and original ideas, connections, and solutions to problems. It’s a part of our drive as human fostering resilience, sparking joy, and providing opportunities for self-actualization. An act of creativity can be grand and inspiring, such as crafting a beautiful painting or designing an innovative class. But an idea need not be artistic or world-changing to count as creative. Life requires daily acts of ingenuity and novel workarounds; in this sense, almost everyone possesses some amount of creativity .Children who express unusual thoughts, who are interesting and stimulating in short. children who appear to unusually bright. Children who experience the world in novel and original ways. These are (personally creative) children whose perceptions are fresh, whose evaluation are insightful, who may make important discoveries that only they know about. Individuals who have change their culture in some important way. Because their achievements are by define by public, it is easier to write about them. (e.g., Leonardo, Edison, Picasso, Einstein, etc.) (pages 25-26)The Systems Model of Creativity: (pages 27-28)the creative domain, which is nested in culture - the symbolic knowledge shred by a particular society or by humanity as a whole (e.g., visual arts)the field, which includes all the gatekeepers of the domain (e.g., art critics, art teachers, curators of museums, etc. the individual person, who using the symbols of the given domain (such as music, engineering, business, mathematics) has a new idea or sees a new pattern, and when this novelty is selected by the appropriate field for inclusion into the relevant domain Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one...What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain." (page 28). Scientific attitude is a cognitive concept and is a composite of a number of mental habits or tendencies to react consistently in certain way to a novel or problematic situation. These habits or tendencies include accuracy, intellectual honesty, open mindedness, suspended judgment, criticalness, and habit of looking for the cause and effect relationships. These habits are important for everyone in everyday life. Scientific attitude is necessary to children to lead a smooth and comfortable life in the society. Children with good scientific attitude can understand the phenomena of nature and human behavior. To develop scientific attitude among students, they should be made to practice and observe science so that they get the opportunity to feel and develop the components of scientific attitude in their minds. In this context the main purpose of the study was to examine Creativity and Scientific Attitude A Correlation study among Secondary School Students. The study also aimed to find out correlation between variables. The study was carried on students of 9th standard in schools of city of Mysore. The sample for the study consisted of 100 male and female students and data was collected by using tools viz, Scientific Attitude scale by Amandeep kaur to measure Scientific attitude of the Secondary school students and Passi test of creativity to measure the creativity of secondary school students. There is a significant relationship between scientific attitude of male and female secondary school students. There is a significant difference between Creativity of male and female secondary school students. There is significant relationship between the male and female secondary school students.

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