V. Rajarajaeswari and K.Govindarajan
Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu
Pages: 160-173
This study examines the connections between teacher attitudes, creativity, and cognitive
flexibility among maths teachers in Chennai’s secondary schools. The main goal is to
comprehend how creativity is influenced by cognitive flexibility and how these elements
affect teachers’ attitudes towards teaching. A self-developed questionnaire evaluating
their attitudes towards teaching and standardised inventory measuring creativity and
cognitive flexibility were completed by a sample of 400 maths teachers who took part
in the study. Using multiple regression to predict teacher attitudes based on cognitive
flexibility and creativity, MANOVA to analyse differences across groups, and descriptive
statistics to summarise the data, the study uses correlation analysis to look at the
correlations between these factors. To further investigate these associations and evaluate
the mediation effects, the Arion, Sobel, and chi-square tests are also used. The results
show that creativity and teacher attitudes, as well as cognitive flexibility and creativity,
are significantly positively correlated. It was discovered that teachers’ attitudes were
positively impacted by cognitive flexibility. These findings emphasise how crucial it is
to support maths instructors’ creativity and cognitive flexibility as a means of improving
their efficacy as educators and their attitudes towards the field. By offering insights
into the developmental processes that underpin teacher quality, the study advances
educational psychology and may help guide teacher training initiatives to enhance
mathematical learning outcomes.