Creativity and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
Creativity and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The ability to think and act creatively is significant for individuals as well as societies. Within the context of education, creativity is considered as one of most the fundamental aspects of cognitive development and thus creativity playing an important role in educational settings has drawn attention in view of its association with academic achievement. In this respect, the purpose of the current study was formed to investigate the impact of creativity on academic achievement in educational settings. To that goal, a meta-analytic approach was applied and studies published in Academic Search Ultimate Database, ERIC and SCOPUS between 2005 and 2022 were included in the analysis. The meta-analysis was solely confined to studies that provided the correlation coefficients between the variables. To this end, 18 relevant papers with a total sample size of 6846 were included in the study. The findings showed that the overall effect size was ,619 and this figure points a medium sized effect according to the classification of effect sizes. In other words, it can be concluded that the total effect size of creativity on academic achievement is medium. The findings of study and their implications were discussed.

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