A Study on the Creativity and its Relative Factors of the students in Junior High School Musically Talented Programs

[[abstract]]The main purpose of this study was to investigate the musically talented students’ performance on the creativity of domain-general, and to explore the relationships including gender, area, music major, musical achievement, musical learning background and musical competition experience. The research method of survey study was utilized to reach the research goals. All the students in Junior High School Musically Talented Programs in Taiwan were sampled in this investigation. The 416 available samples, with a total of 14 schools, were included as research subjects. The research instruments were deal with CAP guidance and Statistica 6.0. The research results were based upon arithmetic mean, standard deviation, percentage, t-test and ANOVA. Conclusions of this research are as follows: 1. the creativity of the students in Junior High School Musically Talented Programs （1）Musically talented students perform better than norm students in “Test of Divergent Thinking”, besides “elaboration”. They also perform better than general students in “fluency” and “flexibility”. （2）Musically talented students perform better than norm students and general students in “Test of Divergent Feeling”. 2. the relative factors on the creativity of the students in Junior High School Musically Talented Programs （1）Gender, area and musical competition experience affect the musically talented students significantly. （2）Music major, musical achievement and musical learning background had no significant effects on the musically talented students.