Test Number 59 Title Starkweather Originality Test Author Starkweather, E. K. Category Test Copyright Date 1974 Availability Out of print Restrictions   Age/Grade Level Ages 3.5 - 6.5 Cost No current information available Forms Two forms: A and B Source No current information available Address   Phone   Fax   web or e-mail   Definition Creativity involved flexibility, fluency, originality, elaboration. Purposes Designed to measure the creative potential of preschool children Characteristics Generating Ideas Manual Poor No current information available Validity Good Compared scores of 13 children with freedom of expression by observing each child playing with simple toys. Compared teacher’ judgments with children’s scores. Chi-square for 306 students paired by high/low scores =17.39; p<.01. Correlation of 18 childre Reliability Good Split-half based on 76 children form .86 on both forms. Inter judge reliability was .99 based on 144 cases. Utility Good Instructions are clear. Four different colored sets of 10 different shapes of plastic are presented to the student two sets at a time. the child removes each piece and tells what it might be. The number of different responses are counted, 40 possible. Scoring seems straight forward. Interpretation Poor No current information available. Propriety Poor No current information available. Reviews & Related Lit Starkweather, E. K. (1966). Pre-school research and evaluation project. Stillwater, OK: Oklahoma State University. Starkweather, E. K. (1964). Problems in the measurement of creativity in preschool children. Journal of Educational Measurement, 1, 109-113. CCL Home Page    Copyright © 2002 Center For Creative Learning, Inc.    Back to Index    Next Test