Measuring cognitive and dispositional characteristics of creativity in elementary students
| Autor: | Paul C. Burnett, Romina Jamieson-Proctor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
media_common.quotation_subject Maximum likelihood Single factor Cognition Theoretical underpinning Variance (accounting) Creativity Checklist Internal consistency Developmental and Educational Psychology Mathematics education Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Creativity Research Journal. 16:421-429 |
| ISSN: | 1532-6934 1040-0419 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10400410409534553 |
| Popis: | This article describes the theoretical underpinning and development of a measurement instrument that provides teachers with a tool to observe the personal creativity characteristics of individual students. The instrument was developed by compiling a list of characteristics derived from the literature to be indicative of the personal characteristics of creative people. The list was then reduced by grouping like characteristics to 9 cognitive and dispositional traits that were considered appropriate for elementary students. The 9-item instrument was then administered in 24 classrooms to 520 Year 6 and Year 7 students. Factor analysis using maximum likelihood extraction with an oblimin rotation revealed a single factor with an eigenvalue greater than 1 and accounting for 63% of the variance. All 9 items on this factor loaded at .72 or greater. The results indicated that the Creativity Checklist has very high internal consistency and is a reliable measurement instrument (a = .93). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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