A comparative study of creativity among internet user and internet nonuser students

The present investigation compares of creativity among internet user and internet non user students of class VIII in Almora district. The population for the present study is consisted all the students of junior high school of government and private schools of Almora city. Two government and two private schools were selected randomly and the sample of 138 students selected randomly. Survey method was used to the present research. For the purpose of research work general information gathering the subjects are internet users or internet nonuser made by Suman Shresth questionnaire used. To test student’s verbal test of creative thinking constructed and standardized by Baqer Mahdi has been employed. Reliability coefficient for the factor score fluency, flexibility, originality and total creativity scores are ranging from 0.896 to .959. The validity coefficient against the teacher rating for fluency, flexibility, originality and total score factor was found to be 0.040, 0.32, 0.34 and 0.39 respectively. Descriptive statistics were used. Mean, standard deviation, t-values were calculated. t-test was used to find out the significance of difference at p<0.01 and p<0.05.