A case study of latent growth curve analysis on creativity of Korean adolescent using SEMtree

Abstract

As the importance of creativity education is emphasized in a rapidly changing society with the advent of the digital era, empirical data are being collected via creativity assessment and survey along with interest in educational environments and_2 teaching and learning methods to enhance creativity. In this study, an empirical analysis was conducted to identify the trend based on the latent growth model and to explore the related variables for the creativity score of Korean middle school adolescents with the longitudinal secondary data having three data points. By applying the SEMtree method, which is a combination of decision tree techniques and structural equation modeling, the main purpose was to provide practical information to general educators by identifying the characteristics of the model-based recursive method, i.e, SEMtree and exploring the possibility of application to actual educational data.