The psychological factors affecting students’ Creativity Inside the Class (CIC) (case study the University of Guilan, Iran)

The main purpose of the research reported here, was to gather, analyze and interpret the perceptions students about creativity in side (CIC) the class held by 300. Students randomly selected from the University of Guilan in the North of Iran with 7 Faculties and nearly 10000 students according to Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table. A 40 items scale questionnaire was developed based upon a review of literature on creativity. The final scale in last part of questionnaire asked them to bear in mind a particular CIC they judged creative and to indicate to Likert 4 points scale the degree to which what students exhibited their perceptions to the each of the items. The reliability of the research instrument has been measured through pilot study which has calculated to Cranbach alpha (%85). The students responses were analyzed for the purpose of the identifying the creativity purposed by each of the 40 items. Their responses were first analyzed for the identifying those items, most frequently and highly rated. Following, factor analysis were performed to identify the factors which affect the CIC. Six areas were investigated and named academic staff members characteristics, university student characteristics, academic activities, sense of humour, learning type and teaching type.