The role of gender in monitoring fine arts creative skills of elementary school students

Abstract

The following article presents the results of research, whose purpose was the analysis of the artistic creativity level and development of fine arts skills among students in the third cycle of elementary school. We monitored the level of artistic creativity and analysed the differences between artistic creativity from the viewpoint of factors among eighth-grade students of different elementary schools in Maribor, Slovenia. The aim of the research, which included 101 students (n=101), was to highlight the importance of art-oriented educational work on creativity among students finishing elementary school, in comparison to the students of lower grades. The results revealed that the level of artistic creativity between genders, showed statistically significant differences in only one factor – fluency, with the girls being more successful. There was a tendency of elaboration and flexibility, where girls achieved slightly better results as well. In comparison to previous research, we can conclude that the girls in lower and higher grades were more creative than boys