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Olusola Akintunde Adediran, Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, NigeriaAbstract
This study examined gender, environment and cognition factors as determinants of creativity among high-achieving secondary school students in Oyo, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design. Four hundred and sixty (460) High achieving students were selected to participate in the study through a systematic sampling technique across twenty-three secondary schools in Oyo, Nigeria. Three research Instruments used in the study were Slosson’s Intelligence Test (SIT) ɑ = 0.97, Ibadan Creativity Assessment Scale (ICAS) ɑ = 0.79 and Socio-Economic Status Scale (SES) ɑ = 0.73. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance data collected from the study were analysed using multiple regression analysis and t-test statistics. The results showed that environmental, gender and cognitive factors, when taken together significantly predicted creativity in participants, (F(12; 447 = 7.514) p < .05. Also, there was no significant difference between male and female students’ performance on creativity (t = 0.212; df = 458; p > .05). Based on these findings, it was concluded that home and school environments were critical to the expression of creative behavior in the participant students. Recommendations were however made based on these findings for parents, teachers, government and all stakeholders to creatively re-structure both home and school environments with a view to facilitate the development and enhance future planning of creative potentials of high-achieving secondary school students in Oyo, Nigeria.
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Conference: WCE2026Stream: Education & Difference: Gifted Education
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Adediran O. (2026) Underscoring Creativity of High-Achieving Secondary School Students: A Discourse on Gender, Environment and Cognitive Interference ISSN: 2760-7259 The Washington DC Conference on Education 2026: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 127-137) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2760-7259.2026.12
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2760-7259.2026.12
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