The effect of the type of preschool curriculum on the fluency, flexibility, originality, and creativity scores as seen through preschoolers' manipulation of simple toys and complex toys

• Main Authors: Banag, Jaclyn Farahnaz A., Laxa, Manuel R., Qua, Gerley T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Education, Preschool; Nursery schools; Preschool children; Curriculum planning; Creative ability; Play; Toys; Children's paraphernalia
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/6792
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study aimed to determine the effect of the type of preschool curriculum on the fluency, flexibility, originality, and total creativity scores of preschool children as seen through their manipulation of simple toys and complex toys. It was hypothesized that 1.) If the type of preschool curriculum is open structured, then the fluency, flexibility, originality and total creativity scores of preschool children as manifested through their manipulation of simple toys increase. 2.) If the type of preschool curriculum is open structured, then the fluency, flexibility, originality and total creativity scores of preschool children as manifested through their manipulation of complex toys increase. Additional hypotheses that were formulated were: (a) if the type of preschool curriculum is open structured, then the children's manipulations of the toys become more varied and become higher in number (b) if the type of toy is complex, then creativity in preschool children increases. 33 children (14 from the traditional preschool and 19 from the open preschool) participated in this study. Scores for each component of creativity as well as the overall creativity scores of children in the traditional and open structured preschool were subjected to 8 one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Results showed that there is a significant difference in the type of preschool curriculum on the scores of each element of the preschoolers' creativity as well as their total creativity scores as manifested through their manipulation of simple toys and complex toys. Only flexibility scores for simple toys were found to be insignificant.