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Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2017), Dublin, Ireland, 24 - 27 April 2017, pp.136-143, (Full Text)
This research’s main was to compare the
characteristics of students who are studying in
different fields of the Fine Arts (painting and music) as
regards their creative thinking skills, involvement in
related extra-curricular activities, their families’
engagement with the Fine Arts and some other
demographic variables.
The population consists of the State Fine Arts High
School within the province of Istanbul (N=3). The
research scales were given to all students registered in
those schools during the 2015-16 Academic Term. Out
of these, 294 students were selected as study
participants on the basis of the validity of their
responses. Study data were collected using the
Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (verbal and
figural) and demographic information form. The test
and the form were given to 156 students from the
Department of Painting and another 138 students from
the D epartment of Music in the Fine Arts High
School.
It was found that the variables of studying in
different branches of the Fine Arts and gender cause
differences in the creativity of some students. Also, a
positive correlation was found between students’
creative thinking and their involvement in Fine Artsrelated activities outside the school and playing an
instrument.