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Article

Evaluation of the Effects of Grouping High Capacity Students in Academic Achievement and Creativity

by
Dolores Valadez
1,
Julián Betancourt
2,*,
Juan Francisco Flores Bravo
1,
Elena Rodríguez-Naveiras
3 and
Africa Borges
4
1
University Center of Health Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44340, Mexico
2
Jalisco Educational Center for High Abilities, Jalisco Education Secretary, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44100, Mexico
3
Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Europea de Canarias, 38300 La Orotava, Spain
4
Departament of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodoly, Universidad de La Laguna, 38205 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2020, 12(11), 4513; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114513
Submission received: 23 April 2020 / Revised: 19 May 2020 / Accepted: 29 May 2020 / Published: 2 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Abilities, Talent and Creativity)
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The objective of this research was to determine the effect of grouping on the academic performance and creativity of 87 students from the Jalisco educational center for high abilities (CEPAC). Gains in academic performance and creativity due to grouping were hypothesized to be correlated with time spent at CEPAC. The Creative Imagination Test for Children (PIC-N) and for young people (PIC-J) were used, as well as the scores obtained in Spanish, mathematics and the general average at the entrance to the center at the end of the 2019 school year. The test was applied collectively to students when they joined the educational center, and after the end of the 2019 school year. In order to determine if there are improvements in academic scores after being included in CEPAC and to determine if there were changes in creativity, ANOVA split plot were carried out. To determine the relationship between school scores and creativity, Pearson correlations were performed. The results showed gains in academic performance and creativity when the permanence of students in the educational center is longer. It is concluded that grouping by ability produces gains in academic performance and in some components of creativity.
Keywords: grouping; creativity; academic performance; high abilities grouping; creativity; academic performance; high abilities

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Valadez, D.; Betancourt, J.; Flores Bravo, J.F.; Rodríguez-Naveiras, E.; Borges, A. Evaluation of the Effects of Grouping High Capacity Students in Academic Achievement and Creativity. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4513. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114513

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Valadez D, Betancourt J, Flores Bravo JF, Rodríguez-Naveiras E, Borges A. Evaluation of the Effects of Grouping High Capacity Students in Academic Achievement and Creativity. Sustainability. 2020; 12(11):4513. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114513

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Valadez, Dolores, Julián Betancourt, Juan Francisco Flores Bravo, Elena Rodríguez-Naveiras, and Africa Borges. 2020. "Evaluation of the Effects of Grouping High Capacity Students in Academic Achievement and Creativity" Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4513. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114513

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Valadez, D., Betancourt, J., Flores Bravo, J. F., Rodríguez-Naveiras, E., & Borges, A. (2020). Evaluation of the Effects of Grouping High Capacity Students in Academic Achievement and Creativity. Sustainability, 12(11), 4513. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114513

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