Assessment of Creativity among College Students in Mizoram

Abstract

All children have the capacity for imagination, which can take many different forms. In order to provide a positive environment where children feel free to express, explore, and understand the value of their creativity, teachers play a key role. The importance of creativity in a child's development has just lately come to light, but studies have demonstrated that creativity is a useful tool for self-expression and for understanding the ideas and feelings of both oneself and others. Contrarily, creativity must be encouraged and coaxed out, teachers must provide the time and support necessary for each child to experience this.Being creative is a valuable skill that calls for raising the standard of instruction in order to generate creative students. In order to favourably impact the process and the accomplishment of learning objectives in the development of creativity, creativity assessment is required during the learning process. The purpose of the study is to ascertain the level of creativity among college students of Aizawl district and to find out the differences in references with their gender and streams of study. The study employed descriptive research as it aims to describe the nature and present status of the phenomenon with the intent of employing data to justify current conditions and practices or to make more intelligent plans for improving them. The study was conducted among college students of Aizawl district where 300 samples were taken to represent the population. Mean, standard deviation, percentage and t-test were employed as statistical techniques for data analysis. According to the study, the level of creativity of college students of Aizawl district were low where male creativity level was lower as compared to female. It was also discovered that out of the three streams, Arts students obtained higher score on the level of creativity among different streams.