Creativity Assessment

Test Number	32
Title	Group Inventory for Finding Interest (GIFFI)
Author	Rimm, S. B. ; Davis, G. A.
Category	Self-Report Inventory
Copyright Date	1980
Availability	Contact publisher
Restrictions
Age/Grade Level	Grades 6-12
Cost	$100 per class set of 30; $15 per specimen set.
Forms	Level I grades 6 – 9 Level II grades 9 - 12
Source	Educational Assessment Service, Inc.
Address	W6050 Apple Road Watertown, WI 53098-3937
Phone	1-800-795-7466
Fax	920-261-6622
web or e-mail	www.sylviarimm.com
Definition	Creativity involves independence, curiosity, perseverance, flexibility, breadth of interests, risk-taking, and sense of humor.
Purposes	Used for screening junior and senior high school students for programs for creatively gifted.
Characteristics	Openness and Courage to Explore Ideas Digging Deeper into Ideas Generating Ideas Listening to One's Inner Voice

Manual
Excellent	The manual is “user-friendly.” It presents discussions of: definition and purposes, target populations and uses, norms, validity and reliability evidence, history and development, and administration and scoring instructions.

Validity
Fair	Low correlations reported for concurrent validity ranging from .21 to .68 with an average below .50. The instrument draws from “personality characteristics of creative persons assessed by other creativity instruments.” Needs additional research on long-t

Reliability
Good	Stability is not reported. Internal consistency was .88 for level I, and .94 for level II. Inter-rater correlations were .75 to .91.

Utility
Excellent	The instrument is designed for group administration by any professional. Directions are clear for the 60 item, Likert-type, paper and pencil inventory. It is untimed taking 25-30 minutes to complete. Scoring is by service.

Interpretation
Good	Percentiles and NCE are provided based on the scores of 8000 students stratified by grade in rural, urban, and suburban settings with minority and white representation in five geographical areas. A suspicion of SES bias weakens the ability to interpret the scores.

Propriety
Good	There are cautions in the manual against anticipated misuses. MMY warns against possible cultural bias toward middle to upper middle class students. It is available in Spanish.

Reviews & Related Lit

MMY #9, 1985, Weeks, M. O.: “There is very little to recommend this scale as one that measures what it purports to measure, viz., creativity. Those who need to measure creativity are left to their own creativity in their attempts to do so.” Davis, G. A., & Rimm, S. (1982a). GIFFI I and II: instruments for identifying creative potential in the junior and senior high school. Journal of Creative Behavior, 16(1), 50-57. Davis, G. A., & Rimm, S. (1982b). Group Inventory For Finding Interests (GIFFI) I and II: instruments for identifying creative potential in the junior and senior high school. Journal of Creative Behavior, 16(1), 50-57. Dwinnell, P. L. (1985). Review of Group Inventory for Finding Interests (GIFI). In: J. Mitchell, Jr. (Ed.). The ninth mental measurements yearbook. (Vol. 1, pp. 362-363). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Rimm, S., Davis, G. A., & Bien, Y. (1982). Identifying creativity: a characteristics approach. Gifted Child Quarterly, 26(4), 165-171. Rimm, S. (1983, March/April). Identifying creativity (part I). Gifted Child Today, 27, 34-37. Rimm, S. (1984). The characteristics approach: identification and beyond. Gifted Child Quarterly, 28, 181-187. Rimm, S. (1987). Marching to the beat of a different drummer. Gifted Child Today, 10 (1), 2-6. Rimm, S. (1988). Identifying underachievement: the characteristics approach. Gifted Child Today, 11(1), 50-54. Rimm, S., & Culbertson, F. (1980a). Validation of GIFT, an instrument for the identification of creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 14(4), 272-273. Rimm, S., & Davis, G. A. (1976). GIFT: an instrument for the identification of creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 10(3), 178-182. Rimm, S., & Davis, G. A. (1980b). Five years of international research with GIFT: an instrument for the identification of creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 14(1), 35-46. Rimm, S., & Davis, G. A. (1983). Identifying creativity (part II) self-report inventories and the characteristics approach. Gifted Child Today, 29(S/O), 19-23.