Four Ways to Measure Creativity
There are multiple assessment tools today that have been created solely for the purpose of assessing creativity. Some assessments are in the form of questionnaires across a broad range of domains, while others are specific to everyday activities. Other assessments require self-reporting while other assessments require students to perform specific tasks to be assessed with a scoring criterion. I have chosen tests that measure thinking, achievement, behavior and beliefs. The four assessment tools that I will discuss include the Creative Achievement Questionnaire (CAQ), the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT), the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB), and the Creativity Domain Questionnaire (CDQ). Out of the above mentioned assessment measures, the TTCT has been around the longest and is most widely used but the SOI is the oldest measurement tool.
Creativity Domain Questionnaire (CDQ)
Unlike other questionnaires, this assessment tool measures a person’s beliefs about their creativity (Silvia, Wigert, Reiter-Palmon, & Kaufman, 2011). A person can view themselves different than another onlooker can which of course can prove to be a negative factor when predicting validity of this assessment. The CDQ requires a person to self-report using a scale of 6 points to self-assess their creativity in 56 areas. A revised version of the questionnaire, CDQ-R, limited the number of domains and allowed for grouping of these 21 domains into four categories. Chemistry, drama, crafts and teaching are domains that this test assesses, but they are grouped with other similar domains for better analysis of scores. One positive result of this test is the validity it has proven to have in predicting per...
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...king about the intended audience and trying to find the easiest way to assess creativity in students from all grades with one tool. Although I still do not consider myself a highly creative person, I did find out that when I have a goal that is related to children as a whole, the possibilities of my creativity are immeasurable.
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A Creativity Researcher For More Than 30 Years, ihaly Csikszentmihalyi Is A Professor Of Human Development And Education In The Department Of Psychology At The University Of Chicago. He Has Written 13 Books, Including The Best-Seller Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience (Harper Collins, 1991). Here Are Highlights Of His Books “Creativity”. This Book Is About What Makes Life Worth Living. The Creative Excitement Of The Artist At Her Easel Or The Scientist In The Lab Comes As Close To The Ideal Fulfillment As We All Hope To, And So Rarely Do. Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Interviewed More Then Ninety Of Possibly The Most Interesting People In The World - People Like Actor Ed Asner, Authors Robertson Davies And Nadine Gordimer, Scientist Jonas Salk And Linus Pauling, Senator Eugene Mccarthy - Who Have Changed The Way People In Their Fields Think And Work To Find Out How Creativity Has Been A Force In Their Lives. The Author Defines Creativity In A Mode He Designates As “Capital C”, Distinct From Individual Creative Impulses Or Acts That Occur Without Initiating Significant Cultural Change. The Creativity With A Capital C That Is Of Interest To Csikszentmihalyi Is The Act Of Creativity By Which Culture And Cultural Evolution Are Seminally Altered. What Made Galileo And Einstein Think Otherwise And But Couldn’t It Be This? What If They Hadn’t? They Aren’t Around To Ask. But There Are Others Who Are. Creativity Provides A Groundbreaking Overview Of Those Characteristics Shared By Some Of The Most Extraordinary Visionaries Of Our Most Recent Century, Painstakingly Gleaned From Hundreds Of Hours Of Personal Interviews. Finally, It Proposes Ways In Which We Can Capitalize On These Commonalities In Order To Further Creativity In O...
Shaughnessy, M. F., & Wakefield, J. F. (2003). Creativity: Assessment. In N. Piotrowski & T. Irons-Georges (Eds.), Magill's encyclopedia of social science:Psychology (pp. 459-463). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
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There is a magnitude of research put behind trying to find the link between creativity and...
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