A STUDY OF CREATIVE THINKING ABILITIES OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR INTELLIGENCE

The present study was an attempt to find out the difference in creative thinking abilities of senior secondary school students in relation to their intelligence. A number of 150 male and female respondents were taken as a sample on the basis of random sampling method. Standardized questionnaires ? Creative Thinking Abilities by Mehdi (1985) and Intelligence Test by Jalota (1976) were used for the collection of the data. ‘t’ test was used to see the significant difference. The findings of the study reveal that (i) It was found that superior intelligent students and low intelligent students differ significantly on fluency superior intelligent students are higher fluency than the low intelligent students. Similarly, superior intelligent students and low intelligent students differ significantly on flexibility too. However, there is no significant difference found between superior intelligent students and low intelligent students regarding originality and creativity. It shows that originality and creativity are equally distributed between superior intelligent students and low intelligent students (ii) It was found that there is no significant difference between Average intelligent students and low intelligence students regarding all dimensions of creativity. It shows that all dimensions of creativity are equally distributed between Average intelligent students and low intelligent students; (iii) It was found that there is a significant difference between superior intelligent students regarding flexibility and creativity. It shows that superior intelligent students having more flexibility than Average intelligent students. However, there is no significant difference found superior intelligent students and Average intelligent students regarding fluency and originality. It shows that fluency and originality are equally distributed between superior intelligent students and average intelligent students.