Creative and Innovative Skills of ThaiStudents: A Causal Mediation Analysis ofLearning Attitudes

Abstract

In recent years, creative and innovative skills have been essential in promoting learning and fostering learner development. This research aimed to investigate the influence of the learning environment and learning management on students' creative and innovative skills in secondary demonstration schools, with learning attitude serving as a mediating variable. The sample comprised 6th-grade students at a demonstration school in Thailand. Using a stratified sampling method, 300 students were selected. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics and composite-based structural equation modeling. The findings indicate that the learning environment and learning management had a statistically significant positive influence on learning attitudes, and learning attitudes had a statistically significant positive impact on creative and innovative skills. Learning attitude fully mediated the relationship between the learning environment and creative and innovative skills and partially mediated the relationship between learning management and creative and innovative skills. This research proposes that school administrators, teachers, parents, and related stakeholders should organize activities that enhance learning management and the learning environment to foster positive attitudes toward learning and develop learners' creative and innovative skills.