Abstract
Background and Purpose . The present study aimed to explore the relationship between creativity and school grades. Material and Methods. Creativity was meas- ured by the Test for Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP) (Urban & Jellen, 2010). The participants (sample) consisted of 180 ninth grade students (104 females) with mean age of 15.1 years. Results. Both boys and girls with higher creative potential score in TCT-DP showed higher average school grade. The tendency was depicted that school grades in the subjects of natural sciences (except in geography) and arts relate most closely to creativity. Although no significant gender differences were found in any of the subjects, boys tended to show higher correlations. The general trend in the relationship between separate TCT-DP criteria and school grades is that the ability to draw a picture with strong expressive power, to make additions to the used elements, to compose a theme or gestalt of the given elements and to break away from two- dimensionality is significantly related to the average school grade independently of the gender. Conclusion. The results give grounds for further exploration of students’ creativity in relation to the academic performance assessed by teachers.
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