A Study of Relationship between Verbal Creativity and Academic Achievement of Students Studying in Smart Classroom

Exploring the Impact of Smart Classrooms on Verbal Creativity and Academic Achievement

Abstract

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has taken an important place in our life like in the offices, online shopping, hotel bookings, Cab booking, and even classroom learning to cloud learning for learning. The traditional classroom was equipped with blackboard while the present era of ICT smart classroom equipped with an interactive whiteboard. Such kind of the classroom has connected with the internet. A student studied from the blackboard and another student studied from the interactive white board has different level of creativity. So, there is an acute need to study the academic achievement and creativity of students using the traditional and smart classroom. This work also compares the three components of creativity (fluency, flexibility, and originality) with academic achievement of class VIIIth students. The Baquer Mehndi’s verbal test is used to measure the creativity. The present study has measured the academic achievement through researcher's self-made class test. The t-test is used to compare the academic achievement of students studying in smart and traditional classrooms. Pearson’s Coefficient of correlation is used to find out the relation between creativity and academic achievement. This study found that there exists a positive relation between academic achievement and creativity