Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Measures of creativity

The scoring of the standardised creativity test was carried out in accordance with the process specified by Barkóczi and Zétényi (1981). Each item of the test was scored for three out of the four measures of creativity as defined by Baer (1993) (this creativity test does not measure elaboration), and the sub-scores were added up for the different tasks. Therefore, each of the four sub-sections of the test received three scores independently: a fluency score, a flexibility score, and an originality score. Barkóczi and Zétényi suggest that the resulting raw scores should be converted to a standardised T-profile, but as the conversion of scores using the figures of the test booklet was judged to be rather imprecise, I decided to use standard scores, Z-scores, for further calculations. Z-scores indicate distance from the mean in terms of standard deviations; therefore, they are directly comparable to one another considering their relative location in their respective distributions (Salkind, 2004).

Stories students tell

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 669 6

This monograph presents research conducted in connection with the relationships between individual difference variables, like creativity and language aptitude, and the oral narrative task performance of first year English major university students. Changes in language instruction that involve greater reliance on learners' creativity imply that researching creativity as a potentially important individual variable should be imminent. The prominence of tasks in the classroom and in tests suggests that tasks and their decisive features leading to differences in task performance should also be investigated. The findings of the monograph contribute to a deeper understanding of how different individual differences contribute to oral narrative task performance on the one hand, and on the other, they shed light on the differential effects of task complexity. Therefore, the monograph might be of interest for researchers, course book writers and practising teachers alike.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/albert-stories-students-tell//

BibTeXEndNoteMendeleyZotero

Kivonat
fullscreenclose
printsave