Intellectual giftedness significantly moderates the Grade 3–4 fluency trend: gifted subjects tend to increase while non-gifted subjects tend to decline¶
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q3 i? For fluency, the Grade 3–4 SMD was positive for gifted subjects (0.46) and negative for non-gifted subjects (-0.20), though neither was significantly different from zero; no effect size is printed for the moderation itself. → Said-Metwaly 2019
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Said-Metwaly 2019¶
Said-Metwaly, S., Fernández-Castilla, B., Kyndt, E., Van den Noortgate, W., & Barbot, B. (2019). Does the Fourth-Grade Slump in Creativity Actually Exist? A Meta-Analysis of the Development of Divergent Thinking in School-Age Children and Adolescents. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Does+the+Fourth-Grade+Slump+in+Creativity+Actually+Exist
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Indicator-level moderator analysis in Results found intellectual giftedness significant for fluency, explaining 68.96% of between-study and 43.71% of within-study variance. The printed SMDs (0.46 gifted; -0.20 non-gifted) were each non-significant, so no effect size is coded for the moderation.
"A positive SMD was obtained for gifted subjects (0.46) compared to a negative value for non-gifted subjects (-0.20). Yet, both values were not significantly different from zero (p = .10 and .19 for gifted and non-gifted subjects, respectively), suggesting a plateau in fluency from Grade 3 to Grade 4."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it
- General Cognitive Ability — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
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Intellectual giftedness significantly moderates the Grade 3–4 fluency trend: gifted subjects tend to increase while non-gifted subjects tend to decline |
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Intellectual giftedness significantly moderates the Grade 3–4 fluency trend: gifted subjects tend to increase while non-gifted subjects tend to decline |
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