CREATIVITY AND MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: DIFFERENCES ACCORDING TO GENDER AND COURSE IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

There are many unknowns that have left open previous studies regarding the study of creativity and multiple intelligences, attending to the variables of gender and course. The aim of the present study was to analyze these differences in Spanish students of Primary Education and Secondary Education. The "Test de Inteligencia Creative" (CREA) and the "Cuestionario de Deteccion de las Inteligencias Multiples" were administered to a sample of 222 students (48% boys) aged 6 to 17 years. The results show differences according to the course variable evidencing, initially, the need to implement the current educational methodologies in order to be consistent with the reality of the students. However, the gender variable seems not to be, as a priori, as conditioning when it comes to studying both creativity and multiple intelligences, and therefore, as opposed to previous researches.