INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION ON CREATIVE SKILL DEVELOPMENT AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PORT HARCOURT METRPOPOLIS, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Education, Technological creative, Literary Creativity, Artistic Creativity.Abstract
The study focused on Influence of Education on Creative Skill Development
among Senior Secondary School Students in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers
State, Nigeria. Ex post factor research design was adopted. The population
comprised of 2,450 SS2 students drawn in public secondary schools in Port
Harcourt metropolis. A sample of 350 respondents was drawn using multi-stage
sampling procedure. The “Education Influence on Creative Skill Development
Questionnaire” (EICSQ) was designed by the researcher and used for the study.
Validity of the instrument was determined by giving the instrument to experts in
measurement and evaluation for vetting while the reliability of the instrument was
determined using Cronbach Alpha method which yielded a reliability Index of
0.86. Data were collected vie face to face method. Independent t-test was used in
analyzing the data. Result of the study showed that education has a significantly
average influence on technological creativity (p=0.032<0.05) Again, there was a
highly significant influence of education on literary creativity of students
(p=0.000<0.05). On the other hand, there was no significant influence of
education on artistic creativity (p=0.143>0.05) of students. Based on this finding,
it was recommended among others that government and other stakeholders in
education should integrating technology more into the curriculum in order to have
more impact on the student’s technological creativity.
