Investigating the effectiveness of virtual education on students' creativity

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of virtual education on the creativity of elementary school girls. The research was conducted with a semi-experimental method with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research included sixth year elementary school girls in Jam city in the academic year of 2019-2019. From this statistical population, 30 students were selected by multi-stage random sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The experimental group underwent virtual training. Abedi's creativity questionnaire was used as a research tool for pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data, statistical methods of multivariate and univariate covariance analysis were used. The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the experimental groups and the control group in terms of creativity subscales (initiative, flexibility, fluidity and expansion) in the post-test phase (P≥0.05). Therefore, virtual education as an effective intervention method in the growth and development of creativity of primary school children can be used by teachers.