Innovative thinking in the light of the variables: academic achievement, specialization, and gender. A field study in the secondary schools of the city of Laghouat

Abstract

The study aims to find out the differences in the ability to think innovatively through the variables of academic achievement, gender (male-female) and specialization (scientific-literary). The innovative thinking of Mr. Khairallah on a cluster random sample of second-year secondary school students in some of the secondary schools of the city of Laghouat, which numbered (100) students, of whom 46 were males, 54 females, 77 scientific, and 23 literary, where the descriptive-relational approach was relied upon. The study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in the ability to think innovatively due to the variables of academic achievement, gender and specialization, and this may be due to the fact that the ability to think innovatively is determined mainly by higher cognitive processes, cultural and environmental frameworks.