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CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2. THE CREATIVE THINKING MEASURES. CREATIVE PROCESS INSTRUMENTS. Two most famous: The Guilford’s Structure of Intellectual Test Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Follows by: The Thinking Creatively in Action & Movement Test (Torrance 1981) The Wallach & Kogan Test (1965)

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CHAPTER 2

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  1. CHAPTER 2 THE CREATIVE THINKING MEASURES

  2. CREATIVE PROCESS INSTRUMENTS

  3. Two most famous: • The Guilford’s Structure of Intellectual Test • Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

  4. Follows by: • The Thinking Creatively in Action & Movement Test (Torrance 1981) • The Wallach & Kogan Test (1965) • The Remote Associates Test (Mednick 1967) • The Thinking Creatively with Sounds & Words Test (1973) • The Creative Story Tests • The Test of Creative Skills

  5. 1. THE GUILFORD’S STRUCTURE OF INTELLECT TEST • Created based on Guilford’s famous structure of intellect model which emphasizes divergent thinking.

  6. Alternative Uses Test • Available for secondary school students & adults • A single task requiring individuals to list alternate uses for six common objects

  7. 2. THE TORRANCE TESTS OF CREATIVE THINKING • Has been used in over 30 different languages & have been published & standardize in • France • Italy • Czechoslovakia • Taiwan

  8. The tests includes figural & verbal from over 150,000 children & adults. • The tests are scored for: • Originality • Fluency • Flexibility • Elaboration

  9. 3. THE THINKING CREATIVELY IN ACTION & MOVEMENT TEST • Individuals are asked to move across the room in as many different ways as possible based on a specific topic such as “a tree in the wind”.

  10. The movement are evaluated for fluency (number of ideas/movement) & originality as they are expressed in movement.

  11. 4. THE WALLACH & KOGAN TEST • Is a series of tasks requiring divergent thinking. • Participant are asked to name all things with wheels he/she can think of. • The test is scored for fluency (number of ideas & uniqueness (ideas that others could not think of)

  12. 5. THE REMOTE ASSOCIATE TEST • AKA “RAT” is constructed based on Mednick theory (1967). • He view creative thinking as result of mental associations.

  13. The examinee is asked to generate a word that can be associated with three different words provided. • E.g: BIRTHDAY, SURPRISE, NIGHT = can be associated with PARTY.

  14. 6. THE THINKING CREATIVELY WITH SOUNDS & WORDS TEST • Developed to assess individual’s creative responses using sounds & words. • Individuals are asked to jot down their mental images based on abstract sounds / words presented to them.

  15. 7. THE CREATIVE STORY TEST • Used to measure creative thinking in terms of thinking fixity (mental blocks). • Measures the ability of the respondents to shift normal perspective to take a different point to the view.

  16. 8. THE TEST OF CREATIVE SKILLS • Used to measure creative thinking in terms of fluency, flexibility & originality. • Two e.g: • The Purdue Test (for industrial setting). • The Uses for a Brick Test.

  17. Scores are given for the number of answers others give. • E.g.

  18. CREATIVE PEOPLE INSTRUMENTS

  19. 1. THE KHATENA-TORRANCE CREATIVE PERCEPTION INVENTORY • Consists of two tests: • What Kind of Person Are You (WKOPAY). • Something About Myself (SAM).

  20. a) What Kind of Person Are You? (WKOPAY) • Designed to yield an index of the individual’s disposition/motivation to function in creative ways. • Consists of 50 forced-choice items.

  21. Examinee to choose between item that maybe socially desirable / undesirable, creative/uncreative. • 5 creative factors: • Acceptance of authority. • Self-confidence. • Inquisitiveness. • Awareness. • Disciplined imagination.

  22. b) Something About Myself (SAM) • Designed to reflect an individual’s personality characteristic, thinking strategies & creative products.

  23. 5 creative factors: • Environmental sensitivity. • Initiative. • Self-strength. • Intellectuality. • Individuality & Artistry.

  24. 2. THE CREATIVE ATTITUDE SURVEY • Designed to assess individual’s attitude associated with the creative thinking, including: • Confidence in one’s ideas. • Appreciation of fantasy, theoretical & aesthetic orientation. • Openness to impulse expression & use of novelty.

  25. 3. GROUP INVENTORIES FOR FINDING TALENT TESTS. • Individuals respond Yes/No to a series of statement designed to assess traits of: • Independence. • Flexibility. • Curiosity. • Perseverance. • Breadth of interest. • Past creative activities & hobbies.

  26. 4. THE BIOGRAPHICAL INVENTORY • Designed based on the assumption that the best predictor of future activity. • Consists of 165 items in which the individual is asked whether he/she has participated in a given activity.

  27. The test yields 4 scores: • Creative art (females). • Creative writing (females). • Creative math & science (males). • Art writing (males).

  28. CREATIVE PRODUCT INSTRUMENTS

  29. More concerned with the quality of the products itself than how a creative product came to be. • The products to be assessed: • Useful Innovations. • Writings. • Art works. • Scientific experiments. • Other creative product that can be evaluated.

  30. 1. THE STUDENT PRODUCT ASSESSMENT FORM (SPAF) • Used to rate student’s products on several factors. • The factors include: • Early statement of purpose. • Problem focusing. • Diversity of resources.

  31. Logic. • Sequence & transition. • Originality of the idea. • Action orientation. • Audience. • Overall Assessment.

  32. 2. THE CREATIVE PRODUCT ANALYSIS MATRIX (CPAM) • 3 dimensions for assessing the creative product e.g: • Novelty. • Resolution. • Elaboration & Synthesis.

  33. NOVELTY Originality of the product & its potential for generating further ideas & changes. • RESOLUTION How well the product serves its intended purpose, fulfils a need/solves a problem.

  34. ELABORATION & SYNTHESIS. Stylistic attributes of the product & may include diverse complexity /simple elegance. • Strength: Able to provide clear indices of creative thinking through a visible product.

  35. 3. THE CREATIVE PAINTING ASSESSMENT (YANPIAW CREATIVE PAINTING ASSESSMENT) (YCPA) • Used to measure the ways respondents evaluate creative painting. • Used to obtain a list of evaluation criteria of art teachers on student’s painting.

  36. Consist of two paintings. • PAINTING A Show criteria expression. • PAINTING B Indicates high drawing skills & neatness.

  37. Respondent is shown the two paintings & asked to answer questions concerning how they evaluate the paintings & the evaluation criteria they use. • Answers are recorded manually in an interview sheet & on a tape recorder.

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