The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students

The aim of this study is to explore the level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students.The researchers have used a random sample of 100 students of secondary school students in Irbid and Amman cities in Jordan.Adapetd Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) was us...

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Main Authors: Rababah, Luqman M., Mohamed, Abdul Halim, Jdaitaw, Malek T., Melhem, Nour Z. Bani
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spelling my.uum.repo.165462015-12-20T08:15:16Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/16546/ The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students Rababah, Luqman M. Mohamed, Abdul Halim Jdaitaw, Malek T. Melhem, Nour Z. Bani LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools The aim of this study is to explore the level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students.The researchers have used a random sample of 100 students of secondary school students in Irbid and Amman cities in Jordan.Adapetd Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) was used to measure their creativity in English writing.TTCT test is thought to be the best test to evaluate the creativity dimensions of students in writing.TTCT assesses fluency or the number of ideas; flexibility, the variety of categories in the answers; and originality, which consists in considering innovative answers, neither familiar nor inappropriate.The results of the study showed that the respondents fall in the moderate level of creativity. IISTE 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/16546/1/Rg77.pdf Rababah, Luqman M. and Mohamed, Abdul Halim and Jdaitaw, Malek T. and Melhem, Nour Z. Bani (2013) The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students. Arts and Design Studies, 10. pp. 25-29. ISSN 2224-6061 http://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/ADS/article/view/6094
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topic LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
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Rababah, Luqman M.
Mohamed, Abdul Halim
Jdaitaw, Malek T.
Melhem, Nour Z. Bani
The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students
description The aim of this study is to explore the level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students.The researchers have used a random sample of 100 students of secondary school students in Irbid and Amman cities in Jordan.Adapetd Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) was used to measure their creativity in English writing.TTCT test is thought to be the best test to evaluate the creativity dimensions of students in writing.TTCT assesses fluency or the number of ideas; flexibility, the variety of categories in the answers; and originality, which consists in considering innovative answers, neither familiar nor inappropriate.The results of the study showed that the respondents fall in the moderate level of creativity.
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author Rababah, Luqman M.
Mohamed, Abdul Halim
Jdaitaw, Malek T.
Melhem, Nour Z. Bani
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Mohamed, Abdul Halim
Jdaitaw, Malek T.
Melhem, Nour Z. Bani
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title The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students
title_short The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students
title_full The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students
title_fullStr The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students
title_full_unstemmed The level of creativity in English writing among Jordanian secondary school students
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