Secondary school students’ creative writing and academic achievement in English

Earlier creative thinking was an endangered thing in educational field. This was constrained due to curriculum and assessment issues in institutions. Slowly a shift towards to creative writing in classrooms is paving its way. Everyone has the capacity to show creativity. But the teaching-learning environment does not give enough scope for creative thinkers. This paper makes an attempt to find whether there is any significant relationship between creative writing and academic achievement in English. 250 XI standard students studying in and around Chennai district were taken as sample for the study. Dr. Baqer Mehdi’s English version of Verbal Test of Creative Thinking was used for the present study. Half yearly examination English marks were taken for academic achievement marks in English. ‘t’ test and Pearson’s Correlation were done to find significant difference and relationship between variables taken for the study.