Procedures

a) The observations and child evaluations were done

independently from each other. The observer and
the
child evaluators had no access to each others data.

b) Observations were made in a natural setting during

the
childrens everyday activity and included many
differences between the groups the teachers
observed
videos of everyday situations, and the observation
categories were discussed one by one.

c) There were 8056 observations made between

 result
According to the educators (observer) creativity in
pretend play described 41.4% of the children did very
well, 35.4% of the children did well,15.8% of the
children somewhat, 6.1% of the children poorly and
only 1.3% of the children not at all.

We can say that the educators

evaluated the children to be quite creative in general