| Test Number | 44 |
| Title | Owens’ Creativity Test |
| Author | Owens, W. A |
| Category | Test |
| Copyright Date | 1960 |
| Availability | Out of print |
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| Age/Grade Level | Adults |
| Cost | No current information available |
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| Source | No current information available |
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| Definition | “Creative designers are persons who have demonstrated the ability to comprehend the nature of a design problem, and to produce a novel ingenious, or original solution in the form of a total, functional, and practical mechanism. Involves the combination of existing principles or mechanisms in such a way as to produce a new and unique solution to a previously unsolved problem.” |
| Purposes | Designed to discriminate potentially creative engineers in the machine design field from those better suited for developmental work. |
| Characteristics | Generating Ideas Digging Deeper into Ideas Openness and Courage to Explore Ideas |
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| Fair | The manual is clearly-written offering a discussion of definition and purposes, the target populations, uses, reliability and validity evidence, supporting research and administration directions. Missing are: norms, scoring instructions, and interpretati |
| Validity |
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| Fair | Based on ratings of the immediate supervisor.Three independent sources were studied with correlations of .60, .64, .72. Author states that concurrent validity evidence is a limiting factor. Within companies it was possible to average 86 per cent of corre |
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| Fair | Split-half correlations ranged from .38 to .91; no other reliability data. |
| Utility |
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| Fair | This measure is administered to groups by any professional. Scoring information is not available. |
| Interpretation |
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| Fair | The examiner’s manual reported: “No norms are provided because large differences between companies suggest that the creativity battery is best used to rank employees, within a company, as to their probable degree of creativity.” |
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| Poor | No information available. |
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