The Role of Psychological and Pedagogical Tools in the Development of Productive and Reproductive Thinking of Primary Schoolchildren

The article examines the issue of the rationality of enriching the educational process with subject-specific and creative tasks aimed at developing not only reproductive, but also productive thinking of primary schoolchildren. Based on an experimental study, the possibility of developing the parameters of reproduction and productivity of thinking of primary schoolchildren: first- and fourth-graders, through the appropriate use of appropriate psychological and pedagogical tools, was demonstrated. The study sample consisted of 56 first-graders and 64 fourth-graders. Subject-based creative tasks developed as part of the experimental study were systematically introduced into the educational process of the experimental group of first- and fourth-graders. For data processing and analysis, modified batteries of tests by J. Gilford and E. Torrens, adapted by E.E. Tunik, statistical analysis of productivity and reproductive parameters when solving a subject-creative problem.

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