Defining and measuring creativity:Are creativity tests worth using?

Autor:	Arthur J. Cropley
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Novelty Cognition Test validity Creativity Mental health Education Developmental and Educational Psychology Impulse (psychology) Creativity technique Technical skills Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Roeper Review. 23:72-79
ISSN:	1940-865X 0278-3193
Popis:	Creativity tests measure specific cognitive processes such as thinking divergently, making associations, constructing and combining broad categories, or working on many ideas simultaneously. They also measure noncognitive aspects of creativity such as motivation (e.g., impulse expression, desire for novelty, risk‐taking), and facilitatory personal properties like flexibility, tolerance for independence, or positive attitudes to differentness. Raters can score the various kinds of test with substantial levels of agreement, while scores are internally stable to an acceptable degree. The tests also correlate to a reasonable degree with various criteria of creativity such as teacher ratings, and are useful predictors of adult behavior. Thus, they are useful in both research and education. However, they are best thought of as measures of creative potential because creative achievement depends on additional factors not measured by creativity tests, such as technical skill, knowledge of a field, mental health, o...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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