On the development of creativity in children

Autor:	Klaus K. Urban
Rok vydání:	1991
Předmět:	Qualitative analysis Visual Arts and Performing Arts Quantitative analysis (finance) media_common.quotation_subject Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychology (miscellaneous) Cognitive skill Creativity Psychology Divergent thinking Test (assessment) Developmental psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Creativity Research Journal. 4:177-191
ISSN:	1532-6934 1040-0419
Popis:	There seems to be a quantitative increase in creativity scores through the years of childhood and adolescence, with some strong declines at certain developmental stations. However, earlier studies give no information about qualitative changes in creativity development. Traditional divergent thinking tests, for example, give more or less pure quantitative information about cognitive skills. The present investigation examined age trends using the recently developed Test zum schopferischen Denken—Zeichnerisch, or in English, Test for Creative Thinking‐Drawing Production (TCT‐DP). The TCT‐DP recognizes qualitative response categories. In the present investigation, the TCT‐DP was administered to children between four and eight years of age (N = 272) from kindergarten and the first two school grades. In addition to a quantitative analysis, a special qualitative analysis of the drawings shows how and in which way different subcomponents of creativity develop. Six developmental stages of creativity, clo...
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