The Effects of Philip Cam and Morteza Khosronejad's Thinking Stories on Preschool Children's Creativity (Case study: city of Tehran, 1389-1390)

In the present study the authors investigated the potential different effects of Philip Cam and Morteza Khosronejad's thinking stories on the creativity of preschool children. Thirty nine pre-school boys who were selected through cluster random sampling participated in the study. The instrument used for the study was Torrance test of creativity. Covariance analysis and a Tukey post hoc test were used to analyze the data. The results showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups (f=32/63, p<005), i.e. there was a positive effect of thinking stories on preschool children's creativity regarding the effectiveness of the treatment on fluency, originality, and elaboration subsets of creativity. However, there was not a significant difference observed between the children who were taught through Philip Cam's stories and those who were taught through Morteza Khosronejad's stories.