Comparison the Effectiveness of Direct and Indirect Instruction on Learners’ Creativity

Introduction: learners’ creativity in this era has attracted researchers and educational planners’ attention to study about this subject and in this regards, educational plans can be designed in a way that provide an appropriate basis to increase Learners’ creativity. The present study with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of direct and indirect instruction on enhancing Learners’ creativity has been conducted. Methods: This research was an extension of the whole pretest-posttest multi-group test with control group.The population included male Learners at 10th grade of experimental secondary school of Rasht city during 2017 to 2018. 400 students were selected through multi- phasic random cluster sampling method. For screening subjects with low creativity, Abedi’s creativity questionnaire was used.Finally 60 Learners with weak creativity randomly were divided into two groups containing 40 subjects (experimental group) and 20 subjects (control group). To analyze data SPSS was used and the results were reported in terms of descriptive statistical methods and covariance analysis.    Findings: The results showed that the mean scores in direct instruction increased from (61.60) to (67.30) and indirect from (43.30) to (64.90), and there were a significant difference, but the mean scores of the control group in pre-test was (55.85) and in post-test was reduced to (52.25). In analyzing data covariance, direct and indirect instruction with effect size of (0.92) significantly increased Learners’ creativity in the experimental group in comparison of the control group (p<0.001). Conclusion: Considering that, direct and indirect instructional methods have positive effect on creativity So that they enhance learners’ creativity thus using these methods are recommended to educational centers