Abstract

GONCALVES, Fernanda do Carmo; FLEITH, Denise de Souza  and  LIBORIO, Ana Clara Oliveira. Creativity in classroom: perceptions of students from two Brazilian states. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.63, n.1, pp. 22-30. ISSN 1809-5267.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception regarding the classroom climate for creativity in the subjects of Portuguese Language and Mathematics of 93 6th grade students from a public school in Minas Gerais (MG) and 94 from a school in the Federal District (FD). The Scale of Classroom Climate for Creativity, used in this study, assesses five factors: teacher’s support to the student’s ideas expression, student’s self-perception with respect to creativity, student’s interest for learning, student’s autonomy, and teacher’s support to the student’s ideas production. The results indicated significant differences when compared the perceptions of students from MG and FD in both subjects. It was also noted that the students from MG assessed the classroom climate for creativity in Mathematics more positively than in the Portuguese Language. There were no differences in the perception of students from the FD comparing the two subjects.

Keywords : Creativity; Classroom; Assessment.

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