Multilevel analysis of relationship between creativity, goal orientation and class structure

The aim of the present study was to find a model for exploring the role of student level and class level factors on creativity. in the present quantitative research, 300 female high school students were selected using stratified random sampling. The research tools included Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (1995), The Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS), and Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) (1998). Multivariate analysis showed that at the school level, the average creativity of different classes is significantly diverse, and 48% of the variance of creativity at the student level explains 52% of the variance at the class level. In fact, the class variable is more important than student level and is the best predictor of student creativity.