Creativity and Unpredictability in School Achievement

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Abstract
In each of the 9th (N = 75) and 11th (N = 84) grades and on each subtest of the ITED battery, overachieving and underachieving groups were identified by using the predicted scores plus and minus one SB as the cutting points. When these two groups were compared on tests of creative thinking, the mean scores did not show any consistent trend across the different achievement areas to favor either one of these groups. Because of the low correlations between IQ and creativity (.12 in 9th, "-.01 in 11th) and achievement and creativity (—.02 to .21 in 9th, —.16 to .07 in 11th), results of analyses of covariance, controlling for IQ, did not affect the findings.

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