The relationship between creative and classroom goal structure through the mediation of Thinking Styles in secondary school students

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between creative and classroom goal structure (through the mediation of Thinking Styles) in secondary school students. This research method is multivariate correlation. The study population consisted of all secondary school students in Islamshahr (12,000 persons). Using Cochran formula and stratified random sampling, 315 students were selected. Data has been collected by visual creativity Torrance (1995), Thinking Styles of Sternberg and Agnr (1998) and goal perception of class questionnaire (PALS, Midgley et al., 2000). The data have been analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis (using statistical software LISREL). Evaluation of the direct and indirect effects showed that: There is a significant correlation between the approach - performance in the classroom through the mediation of hierarchical thinking styles, liberal, holistic and external with creativity .mentioned variables predict 56 percent of the variance of scores in creativity. Among three structure of mastery, approach - avoidance function and performance, only structure approach - creative performance is significant. The estimated value of the direct effect on the performance approach of the legislator thinking style, hierarchical, liberal, outward and narrow is significant (p