Analysis of creativity and cognitive flexibility in adolescents in a space of educational innovation

Abstract

The study explored the creative capacity —creative fluency and flexibility— and cognitive flexibility in a group of adolescents who regularly participated in the activities of an educational innovation center, analyzing their possible relationship. The implemented design was non-experimental of a quantitative cross-sectional type of exploratory-descriptive scope. The sample consisted of 19 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 16 who regularly attended an educational innovation center. The instruments were the CREA Test of Creative Intelligence (Corbalán et al., 2003) and the Batería III Cog Woodcock-Muñoz Concept Formation Subtest (Woodcock et al., 2005). The results indicated a high level of creativity in the analyzed group compared to the Argentine scale. In turn, associations were found between the variables creative fluency and creative flexibility. Cognitive flexibility was associated with creative flexibility, although it did not register an association with creative fluency. The findings, linked to the type of methodology implemented in the educational center, open new questions and hypotheses about the pedagogical practices and the characteristics of the adolescents who attend these spaces.

Keywords

• creatividad, flexibilidad cognitiva, innovación educativa