An Investigation on the Effectiveness of the Arts Synthetic Training Method on Learning and Creativity of Elementary Male Students

One of the most important duties of an educational system is to prepare people to have an effective and successful social communication, and one of the key factors in an effective and successful social communication is creativity. To improve the student's creativity, an educational system could use more likely artistic methods of training. Hence, the aim of the current experimental study was to investigate the effectiveness of an arts synthetic training method on student's learning and creativity. Using multi-stage cluster sampling, sixty kindergarten male students were selected, and then randomly designed into experimental and control groups; then they took part in 14 one-hour sessions of training some of Farsi letters either traditional or arts synthetic method. Finally, they were asked to complete Torrence Creativity Scale and a learning assessment test. According to obtained results, it is noteworthy that the arts synthetic method of training in comparison to the traditional method of training caused more increase in the student's creativity. Although, the results didnt show any significant differences between the two groups in their learning of the letters. Regarding to the variety and flexibility of the arts synthetic method of teaching, the education system could use this method, moreover, especially at elementary schools to facilitate their creativity and improve their inner motivation to study and learning.