Maryam Mahdian; Zahra Karami Baghteyfouni
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of extracurricular educations of the pishtazan organization on increasing the students’ creativity and happiness. The research method was semi-experimental by pretest-post test with unequal control group design. The statistical ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of extracurricular educations of the pishtazan organization on increasing the students’ creativity and happiness. The research method was semi-experimental by pretest-post test with unequal control group design. The statistical population lincluded all Joveinian female students in secondary high school in 97-98 educational year. A sample of 30 students were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The treatment phase was planned in ten 90-minute sessions that wes given to experimental group. To gather data, the researcher used Torrance’s creativity and Oxford’s happiness questionaire. The results showed that there is a significant difference between two groups in creativity and happiness based on co-variance analysis. Finally, results indicated the role and importance of extracurricular educations of the pishtazan organization in increasing the students’ creativity and happiness.