Can We Trust Creativity Tests? A Review of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT)

By Kyung H Kim. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Information Systems

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Captions, consistency, creativity, and the consensual assessment technique: New evidence of reliability (2007, background): “It measures the degree a title moves beyond concrete labeling of the pictures drawn” (Kim, 2006).”
The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (2011, background): “Thus, Kim (2006) questioned the credibility of Originality scores of the 1998 TTCT, because the scores were based on the lists of responses that are statistically common developed by Torrance in 1984, over 14 years earlier.”
Understanding Fluency and Originality: A latent variable perspective (2014, background): “Moreover, creativity research has been the subject of scrutiny both from within nd without the field concerning the reliability and validity of our measurements (Kim, 2006).”
Meta‐Analyses of the Relationship of Creative Achievement to Both IQ and Divergent Thinking Test Scores (2008, background): “The TTCT is known for having one of the largest norming samples with valuable longitudinal validations (Davis, 1997) and high predictive validity over a very wide age range (Cropley, 2000, for more information, see Kim, 2006).”
Assessing Creativity With Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods (2008, background): “Divergent Thinking 5 Assessing Divergent Thinking Divergent thinking is assessed with divergent thinking tasks, in which people generate ideas in response to verbal or figural prompts (Kim, 2006; Michael & Wright, 1989; Wallach & Kogan, 1965).”
The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in three creative thinking processes (2013, methodology): “…when using traditional scoring procedures (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011) and oversimplifying the criteria for creativity to merely generating a large amount of different ideas to unrealistic situations (Barron & Harrington, 1981; Cattell, 1971; Kim, 2005, 2006; Simonton, 2000; Sternberg & Lubart, 1996).”
Can Traditional Divergent Thinking Tests Be Trusted in Measuring and Predicting Real-World Creativity? (2011, methodology): “80) that each of them does not provide meaningfully different information (Almeida et al., 2008; Clapham, 1998; Feldhusen & Goh, 1995; Kim, 2006; Mansfield et al., 1978).”
Can speaking more languages enhance your creativity? Relationship between bilingualism and creative potential among Korean American students with multicultural link (2011, background): “Asian culture values conformity and collectivism, whereas American culture values independence and individualism (Kim, 2009). Saeki, Fan, and Van Dusen (2001) reported some cultural differences in Elaboration and Abstractness of Titles of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking with American and Jap”
Torrance Test of Creative Thinking: The question of its construct validity (2008, background): “TTCT is the most well-known and widely used test of measuring creativity (Baer, 1993; Kim, 2006a; Ferrando, 2006; Wechsler, 2002).”
Creativity assessment in psychological research: (Re)setting the standards. (2019, result): “Acar and Runco (2019) reiterated the well-known results of validity studies (e.g., Kim, 2006) illustrating that various forms of DT can predict creative behaviors.”
Motor Creativity and Creative Thinking in Children: The Diverging Role of Inhibition (2011, background): “The results showed a high collinearity between fluency and flexibility in creative thinking, confirming that the two measures do not reflect two independent dimensions (Kim, 2006).”
The Efficacy of Teaching Creativity: Assessment of Student Creative Thinking Before and After Exercises (2011, methodology): “…(Kelly, 2004).1 While tests of divergent thinking do not necessarily correspond to creative production or creative eminence, these tests, particularly the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, were developed to understand and nurture qualities that help people express their creativity (Kim, 2006).”
Convergent Thinking Moderates the Relationship between Divergent Thinking and Scientific Creativity (2019, background): “Divergent thinking is the ability to produce various possible answers or different solutions to one question and is indexed by fluency, flexibility, and originality (Kharkhurin, 2017; Kim, 2006; Michael & Wright, 1989; Wallach & Kogan, 1965).”
Approaches to Measuring Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review (2017, neutral): “…1988; Hocevar, 1979d); other studies have found more than one factor (e.g. Almeida, Prieto, Ferrando, Oliveira, & Ferrándiz, 2008; Clapham, 2004; Kim, 2006b; Kim, Cramond, & Bandalos, 2006; Krumm, Aranguren, Filippetti, & Lemos, 2014; Krumm, Filippetti, Lemos, Koval, & Balabanian, 2016; Krumm,…”