MEASUREMENT OF PATTERNS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVE ABILITIES AMONG POST-PRIMARY STUDENTS IN KANO STATE
MEASUREMENT OF PATTERNS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVE ABILITIES AMONG POST-PRIMARY STUDENTS IN KANO STATE
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1994-06
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BALA, JIBRIN
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MEASUREMENT OF PATTERNS OF ARTISTIC CREATIVE ABILITIES
AMONG POST-PRIMARY STUDENTS IN KANO STATE
BY
JIBRIN BALA
N.C.E., B.ED (HONS) CREATIVE ARTS, A.B.U
The purpose of this study was to measure the patterns of
artistic creative abilities of some selected post-primary
students in Kano State. A total of two hundred and eighty four
students (male and female) in SS II and III, drawn from ten
randomly selected institutions took part in the study.
A standardized testing instrument - the Zaria Test of
Artistic Creative Abilities - ZATAA (Olorukooba, 1981) was
used in conjunction with other instruments: - questionnaires,
interviews and Observations were used for the study. Six
hypotheses were developed and tested thus:-
(a) There is no significant variation in the performance of
students among the five scales of ZATAA, (Scales A,B,C,D
& E) .
(b) There is no significant difference in the performance of
Female versus Male students in all the sub-scales of the
test instrument.
(c) There is no significant difference in the performance of
students from Secondary Schools as compared to those from
Teachers' Colleges.
(d) There is no significant difference in the performance of
students from Teachers' Colleges and those from Technical
Colleges.
(e) There is no significant difference between the
performance of students from secondary schools and those
from Technical College.
(f) There is no significant difference in the performance of
Secondary School students as compared to those from
Teachers' and Technical College.
Data collected was analyzed by using the One-Way analysis of
variance and t-test. All hypotheses were tested at the 0.05
level of significance. The results obtained showed that:-
(a) There was significant difference within the five subscales,
which implied that high performance in an
activity does not necessarily mean high performance in
other sub-scales.
(b) There is significant difference in the performance of
male versus female because female performed better than
their male counterpart in all the sub-scales.
(c) There is no overall significant difference between
Teachers' Colleges and Secondary schools except in subscale
E (art history) where there appeared to be some
significant difference.
(d) There is no overall significant difference between
Teachers College and Technical College except in the
theoretical aspect (sub-scales D and E ).
(e) There is no significant difference between Secondary
Schools and Technical College except in the theoretical
aspect where secondary schools perform better than
technical colleges.
(f) There is no significant difference between Secondary
school as compared to Teachers' and Technical Colleges
except in sub-scales D & E where there is significant
difference.
The following observations were made as a by-product of the
study.
i) The high calibre of teachers and instructional materials
appear to have some influence on students' creative
thinking,
ii) The impression that creativity essentially belong to the
affective domain which cannot be adequately measured
objectively by an instrument does not appear to be so, as
demonstrated by the successful use of the instrument -
ZATAA.
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DIVISION OF ART EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
Keywords
MEASUREMENT,, PATTERNS,, ARTISTIC,, CREATIVE,, ABILITIES,, POST-PRIMARY,, STUDENTS,, KANO STATE