Creativity Assessment

Test Number	3
Title	Abedi Creativity Test
Author	Jamal Abedi
Category	Self-Report Inventory
Copyright Date	1994
Availability	Contact Author
Restrictions	Contact Author
Age/Grade Level	Grade 6+
Cost	Contact Author
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Source	Dr. Jamal Abedi
Address	UCLA-CREST, 301 GSE/IS, 300 Charles E. Young Dr. N., Los Angeles CA 90095-1522
Phone	310-206-1532 ext 64346
Fax	310-825-3883
web or e-mail	abedi@cse.ucla.edu
Definition	Creative thinking, following Torrance’s definition, emphasizing fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
Purposes	Seeks to develop a multiple choice test to provide an efficient estimate of the scores derived from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
Characteristics	Generating Ideas

Manual
Poor	No published manual appears to be available yet. This is an experimental instrument still in the preliminary stages of development.

Validity
Poor	Few studies completed yet. Initial correlations with TTCT scores were low (.15 to .41), the highest for fluency. Studies from Spain indicated low, but significant, correlations with other criteria.

Reliability
Fair	Low but significant reliabilities reported from studies in Spain. More promising results were obtained using a structural equation modeling design, but these require replication and further study with other populations.

Utility
Good	The intent, which is to provide an approach that is more efficient to administer and score than the usual creative thinking measure, is appealing, and the author reports preliminary efforts to approach the task in a psychometrically sound manner. The results suggest that considerable development efforts are still necessary.

Interpretation
Good	Links specifically to variables measured by the TTCT.

Propriety
	Not addressed; instrument currently intended for research use only.

Reviews & Related Lit

Abedi, J. (In Press). A latent-variable modeling approach to assessing reliability and validity of a creativity instrument. Creativity Research Journal. Auzmendi, E., Villa, A., & Abedi, J. (1996). Reliability and validity of a newly-constructed multiple-choice creativity instrument. Creativity Research Journal, 9 (1), 89-95. O’Neil, H., Abedi, J., & Spielberger, C. (1994). The measurement and teaching of creativity. In: H. O’Neil and M. Drillings (Eds.). Motivation: Theory and research. (pp. 245-263). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.