The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

By By E. Paul Torrance, Interpretive Manual. 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Ethical leadership, trust in leader and creativity: The mediated mechanism and an interacting effect (2018, background): “Creativity is defined as a process of finding solutions to problems, deficiencies, disparities in knowledge, missing components, and dissonances (Torrance, 1974).”
The relation between semantic memory structure, associative abilities, and verbal and figural creativity (2020, methodology): “The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is regarded as a standard measure of divergent thinking and provides verbal and figural test forms that meet the needs of the current research.”
Exploring the critical influential factors of creativity for college students: A multiple criteria decision-making approach (2014, methodology): “Relevant research on creativity is numerous and various, as are the research methods and assessment models (Almeida, Prieto, Ferrando, Oliveira, & Ferrándiz, 2008; Burke & Williams, 2008; Tierney & Farmer, 2002; Torrance, 1966).”
Personality: A Possible Bridge Between Creativity and Psychopathology? (2006, background): “TTCT Figural and Verbal forms (Torrance, 1990).”
A Synthetic Analysis of the Effectiveness of Single Components and Packages in Creativity Training Programs (2006, methodology): “This investigation extended Rose and Lin’s (1984) study to include dependent variables other than the TTCT and tried to calculate the mean effect size for training package and component technique, if possible.”
Creativity and education: an American retrospective (2006, background): “E. Paul Torrance later published tests for children and youth, kindergarten through graduate school, based on Guilford’s approach (Torrance, 1966).”
An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children's creative thinking in music (2009, methodology): “The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT; Torrance, 1974) have been widely used and have influenced similar approaches in other fields.”
Relationships between Critical and Creative Thinking (2001, methodology): “The core of the gestation phase of the creative process model is the creative attributes referred to by Torrance et al. (1990) as creative thinking abilities.”
Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as Predictors of Personal and Public Achievement: A Fifty-Year Follow-Up (2010, background): “Torrance’s objective was to develop a reliable and valid test of creative thinking abilities that could be administered to individuals from kindergarten through adulthood (Torrance, 2008).”