Characteristics explaining students’ creative behaviors in South Korea using random forest

IF 2.3 3区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Asia Pacific Education Review Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI:10.1007/s12564-024-09930-z

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Abstract

There is limited research that holistically explains the characteristics of creative students in nurturing creative behaviors. This lack of a holistic approach to studying creative behaviors may inhibit accounting for the tangled dynamics among explanatory variables. Thus, the present study examined personal and environmental characteristics that predicted creative behaviors using a random forest (RF) analysis in a large-scale dataset collected in South Korea. The responses of eighth graders (N = 6,546) to the 20 questions measuring creative behaviors were explained by 67 explanatory variables in an RF analysis. Results indicated that the top five variables were identified for predicting creative behaviors by two types of importance indices: civic engagement, self-regulation, information and communication technology skills, career maturity, and positive attitudes toward school/learning. Environmental characteristics did not appear in the top five variables, emphasizing the importance of personal characteristics in shaping student creative behaviors. Educational and theoretical implications are discussed, with suggestions for future research.

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利用随机森林解释韩国学生创造性行为的特征

摘要从整体上解释有创造力的学生在培养创造性行为方面的特点的研究十分有限。缺乏研究创造性行为的整体方法可能会阻碍解释变量之间纠缠不清的动态关系。因此，本研究使用随机森林（RF）分析法，对韩国收集的大规模数据集中预测创造性行为的个人和环境特征进行了研究。在 RF 分析中，67 个解释变量解释了八年级学生（N = 6,546 人）对 20 个创意行为测量问题的回答。结果表明，通过两类重要性指数确定了预测创造性行为的前五大变量：公民参与、自我调节、信息和通信技术技能、职业成熟度以及对学校/学习的积极态度。环境特征没有出现在前五个变量中，这强调了个人特征在塑造学生创造性行为方面的重要性。本文讨论了教育和理论方面的影响，并对未来的研究提出了建议。

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Asia Pacific Education Review EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The Asia Pacific Education Review (APER) aims to stimulate research, encourage academic exchange, and enhance the professional development of scholars and other researchers who are interested in educational and cultural issues in the Asia Pacific region. APER covers all areas of educational research, with a focus on cross-cultural, comparative and other studies with a broad Asia-Pacific context. APER is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Education Research Institute at Seoul National University. It was founded by the Institute of Asia Pacific Education Development, Seoul National University in 2000, which is owned and operated by Education Research Institute at Seoul National University since 2003. APER requires all submitted manuscripts to follow the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA; http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx).