Analysis on the Creativity of Middle School Students when Solving Tasks about Problem Posing through Investigation

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between strategic creativity and outcome creativity in middle school students when solving Problem Posing through Investigation(PPI) tasks, and to identify the characteristics of students with high levels of both types of creativity. For this purpose, 16 third-year students from Middle School were individually tasked with solving PPI tasks. The results were analyzed, yielding the following findings: First, there was a high correlation between strategic creativity and outcome creativity. Second, students used only a limited number of strategies, which was attributed to their lack of knowledge about the variety of available strategies. Third, adding auxiliary lines/shapes during geometric exploration did not necessarily lead to creative outcomes; rather, students who set specific goals and expanded the problem situation by adding more auxiliary lines/shapes showed higher scores in both strategic creativity and outcome creativity.