Defining and measuring creativity: Are creativity tests worth using?

By Arthur Cropley. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Consumer‐based assessment of product creativity: A review and reappraisal (2006, background): “Thus, in the conclusion of the Handbook of Creativity Handbook, Mayer Note: The data are from “Defining and Measuring Creativity: Are Creativity Tests Worth Using?” by A.J. Cropley, 2000, Roeper Review, 23(2), pp. 77–79.”
The Efficacy of Teaching Creativity: Assessment of Student Creative Thinking Before and After Exercises (2011, methodology): “Previous research indicates that reliability of scoring TTCT is adequate when the procedure is done by novice assessors and is high when completed by professional staff (Cropley, 2000; McIntyre et al., 2003).”
The Latent Structure and Measurement Invariance of Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking–Figural (2006, background): “The TTCT has much to endorse its use (e.g., Cropley, 2000).”
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2010, background): “Ideas, however, cannot be created at will and often emanate from the fringe of consciousness, rather than as the result of linear rational thinking (Dasgupta 1994).”
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).”
Divergent Thinking as an Indicator of Creative Potential (2012, background): “In one review, these ranged from .42 to .97 (Cropley, 2000), but fortunately most were above .70.”
Is Creativity Unidimensional or Multidimensional? Analyses of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (2006, background): “With 25 years of extensive development and evaluation (Millar, 2002), the TTCT has large norming samples, longitudinal validations (G. A. Davis, 1997), and high predictive validity for a broad age range (A. J. Cropley, 2000 ).”
Can We Trust Creativity Tests? A Review of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (2006, background): “It has one of the largest norming samples, with valuable longitudinal validations (Davis, 1997) and high predictive validity over a very wide age range (Cropley, 2000).”
Instructional Strategies to Support Creativity and Innovation in Education. (2017, background): “The third dimension is elaboration and synthesis, which comprises five concepts: elegant and well-crafted, complex, understandable, efficiency, and useful (Cropley, 2000).”
Creativity in entrepreneurship education (2008, result): “Psychometric tests based on personality factors have been found generally to have high test-retest reliability (0.60-0.70) and moderate external validity (0.20-0.55) as well as resemblance to real-life situations (0.25-0.50) (Cropley, 2000).”
Revisiting Individual Creativity Assessment: Triangulation in Subjective and Objective Assessment Methods (2016, background): “The complex and multidimensional characteristic of creativity requires a more comprehensive approach in assessing creativity (Cropley, 2000; Feldhusen &Goh, 1995; Plucker & Makel, 2010).”
The Definition and Measurement of Creativity: What Do We Know? (2004, background): “Standard IQ test are frequently criticized as being inaccurate predictors of achievement in later life, yet they correlate about 0.70 with school grades: by contrast, divergent thinking tests typically correlate around 0.50 with subsequent achievement (Cropley, 2000).”
Enhancement of Creative Thinking Skills Using a Cognitive-Based Creativity Training (2017, background): “Divergent thinking tests can be considered the most widely used creativity test (Cropley 2000; Davis 2003), and they are applied in approximately 40 % of all creativity studies with college students and adults (Torrance and Presbury 1984).”
Approaches to Measuring Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review (2017, background): “Defining creativity Creativity has proven, over the years, to be difficult to define and measure due to its complex and multidimensional nature (Barbot et al., 2011; Batey & Furnham, 2006; Cropley, 2000; Runco, 2004, 2007; Treffinger et al., 2002).”