Prediction of Student Creativity upon Personality Traits and Learning Strategies

The purpose of this study was to predict students' creativity based on learning strategies and personality traits. Considering the aspect of goals, the research was an applied study and in terms of the method was descriptive-correlation one. The statistical population of this study included all second-graders students in Bojnourd city that 224 of 536 people were selected according to Cochran's formula and by random sampling method. Then, data were collected by Costa and McCarey personality traits (1985), Karami learning strategies (2002) and Samad Aghaee's creativity (2003) questionaries. Their validity was of formal and content type, and reliability was determined through Cronbach's alpha (0.87), (0.80) and (0.82), respectively. SPSS 21 was also used to analyze the data. Accordingly, research findings showed the openness, adaptability, and style of avoiding confusion identity were 27% which was able to predict creativity. The beta coefficients for learning strategies were roughly equal  to (β = 0.40), open to new experiences (β = 0.32) and for extraversion equal to (β = 0.21)that indicated to be meaningfully predictable of creativity.