The Effectiveness of Creativity Skills Training on Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Social Skills in Elementary Sixth Grade Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of creativity skill training on increasing creativity, critical thinking, and social skills in female elementary Sixth Grade StudentsinTehran (2018-2019).A experimental design with pretest-posttest and control group was conducted in a sample of 40 students using a simple random sampling method. Before training creativity skills, both groups in the pretest responded to three questionnaires: Abedi's creativity (1994), tendency to predictive thinking of Rickets (2003) and social skills of Indarbitzens and Foster (1992). The results of Multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) showed that training creativity skills increased the creativity of students (p <0.05), but did not show any significant effects on critical thinking and social skills of students in experimental group(p >0.05).  The results indicate that creativity skills training improved creativity in the study group, but improving critical thinking and social skills requires the use of more and more specialized training, also, given that in the present study more than 40 samples and used in a short period of time, so generalization of the results of the present study should be done with caution.