Students from South Korea, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand took the next few top positions.
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s 15-year-olds came out tops in a global test for creative thinking with a score of 41 points, beating students from 63 other education systems.
Some 6,600 15-year-old students across all 149 secondary schools and 15 private schools here, including international schools and madrasahs, participated in the study conducted from April to May in 2022. In some scenarios in the test, students were asked to come up with ideas to improve the accessibility for wheelchair users in a library with a spiral staircase, improve an experiment for finding the cause of a problem with a frog population in a river, and suggest story ideas for a film about an intelligent robot and a human character.
They not only demonstrated higher levels of creative thinking than peers from bottom 25 per cent SES homes in OECD, but also outperformed the average OECD student who scored on average 33 points. But despite their high levels of creative thinking skills, Singapore students did not think of themselves as creative. Less than half of them here believed that they could produce good stories or drawings, or invent new things with a creative streak.
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