Effectiveness of education based on Eisner\'s Seven Step Approach on creativity and academic emotions in high school students

Abstract

The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of education based on Eisner's Seven Step Approach on the creativity and academic emotions of the male high school students in Boushehr city. The method of the current research was pre-test-post-test semi-experimental with the control group design and the statistical population included 4766 students of the first secondary school in Boushehr city in 2022. The sample was 40 people who were selected by accessible sampling method that randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The research tools included Torrance's creativity questionnaires (1992) and Academic Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ). The findings exhibited that training based on Eisner's Seven Step Approach improves each of the components of creativity, i.e., flexibility, originality, fluency and elaboration in the experimental group compared to the control group. Also, training based on Eisner's Seven Step Approach reduces the component of negative academic emotions and improves positive academic emotions in the experimental group compared to the control group. In the general it is concluded that by using education based on Eisner's Seven Step Approach, it is possible to help increase students' strengths and skills in the field of creativity and academic emotions of high school students.

Keywords

• education based on eisner's seven step approach
• creativity
• academic emotions
• high school students