Assessing Creativity Index

Test Number	1
Title	A Childhood Attitude Inventory for Problem Solving
Author	Covington, M. V.
Category	Self-Report Inventory
Copyright Date	1967
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Age/Grade Level	Upper Elementary
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Source	Contact Author
Address	Dr. Martin V. Covington, Psychology Dept., University of California, Berkeley, CA.
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Definition	Creativity is approached as involving novel or unusual ideas in the context of solving open-ended and ambiguous or ill-defined problems.
Purposes	Designed to assess the student’s attitudes toward problem-solving and his/her self-concept as a creative problem solver. Originally designed to support research on the effectiveness of the Productive Thinking Program.
Characteristics	Generating Ideas Openness and Courage to Explore Ideas Listening to One's Inner Voice

Manual
Poor	No manual

Validity
Poor	None reported

Reliability
Fair	Stability over 5 weeks with 325 subjects was reported as .69 for Scale I and .65 for Scale II.

Utility
Fair	Designed for group administration. The format is paper and pencil using true/false, and yes/no answers.

Interpretation
Fair	Scale I reports the child’s attitudes toward solving open-ended or ill-structured problems. Scale II reports the child’s self-confidence as a creative problem solver.

Propriety
Poor	Not addressed

Reviews & Related Lit
The instrument has been used in several published experimental studies of the effectiveness of the Productive Thinking Program, including studies by researchers other than the program’s developers. Training in methods of solving open-ended, ill-defined problems was reported in several studies as producing significant gains in attitudes as measured by this instrument.

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1	A Childhood Attitude Inventory for Problem Solving	View
2	A Survey of Students Educational Talent and Skills: A.S.S.E.T.S.	View
3	Abedi Creativity Test	View
4	AC Test of Creative Ability	View
5	Adjective Check List	View
6	ALPHA Biographical Inventory	View
7	Assesing CPS Performance (3rd Ed.)	View
8	Barron-Welsh Art Scale	View
9	Berkeley Experimental Problem Solving Tests	View
10	Biographical Inventory Creativity	View
11	Biographical Inventory for Students	View
12	Biographical Inventory - Form U	View
13	Combined Efficacy Scale for Creative Productivity	View
14	Comprehensive Ability Battery	View
15	Creative Activities Checklist	View
16	Creative Behavior Inventory	View
17	Creative Behavior Inventory	View
18	Creative Product Semantic Scale	View
19	Creative Reasoning Test	View
20	Creative Thinking Test	View
21	Creativity Assessment Packet	View
22	Creativity Attitude Survey	View
23	Creativity Checklist	View
24	Creativity Tests for Children	View
25	Denny-Ives Creativity Test	View
26	Drawing Completion Task	View
27	Flanagan Aptitude Classification Tests/Ingenuity (FACT Battery)	View
28	Gifted and Talented Evaluation Scales (GATES)	View
29	Gifted and Talented Screening Form	View
30	Gifted Evaluation Scale-Second Edition (GES-2)	View
31	Gross Geometric Forms	View
32	Group Inventory for Finding Interest (GIFFI)	View
33	Group Inventory for finding Talent (GIFT)	View
34	Inventory of Individually Perceived Group Cohesiveness	View
35	Khatena-Morse Multitalent Perception Inventory	View
36	Khatena-Torrance Creative Perception Inventory	View
37	Kit of Reference Tests for Cognition	View
38	Leadership Skills Inventory	View
39	Measure of Questioning Skills	View
40	Meeker Creativity Rating Scale	View
41	Miller Motivation Scale	View
42	Modes of Thinking in Young Children	View
43	Mother Goose Problems Test, Revised Edition	View
44	Owens Creativity Test	View
45	Parental Evaluation Children's Creativity	View
46	Pennsylvania Assessment of Creative Tendency	View
47	Personal Creativity Assessment	View
48	Personal Orientation Dimensions	View
49	Personal Orientation Inventory	View
50	Pikunas Graphoscipic Scale	View
51	Preconscious Activity Scale	View
52	Preschool and Kindergarten Interest Descriptor	View
53	Process Skills Rating Scales	View
54	Remote Associates Tests	View
55	Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior	View
56	Selected Creativity Tasks	View
57	Similes	View
58	Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), 5th Ed.	View
59	Starkweather Originality Test	View
60	Structure of Intellect Learning Abilities Test	View
61	Student Talent and Risk Profile (Star)	View
62	Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production	View
63	Test of Creative Potential	View
64	Test of Creative Thinking	View
65	The Creative Dramatics Test	View
66	The Creativity Self-Report Scale	View
67	The Gross Geometric Forms Test for Children	View
68	The Problem Solving Inventory	View
69	The Purdue Elementary Problem Solving Inventory	View
70	Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement	View
71	Thinking Creatively with Sounds and Words	View
72	Torrance Test of Creative Thinking	View

Test Number	2
Title	A Survey of Students’ Educational Talent and Skills: A.S.S.E.T.S.
Author	Grand Rapids Public Schools (MI)
Category	Rating Scale Self-Report Inventory
Copyright Date	1986
Availability	Out of Print
Restrictions
Age/Grade Level	Grades K-6
Cost	No data as to recent pricing.
Forms	Two forms: K-3 and Inc.K-6.
Source	No current source available.
Address	Originally developed in the Grand Rapids (MI) Public Schools
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Definition	Creative Thinking Ability is indicated by: the ability to think of a large number of solutions; appreciation of funny storied; enjoyment in telling funny stories; an appreciation of adventure and taking risks; a lot of curiosity about new things; a great deal of imagination; an eagerness to discuss new ideas or information
Purposes	The instrument is designed to help identify children’s gifts and talents, and to help in planning enrichment experiences for these children.
Characteristics	Generating Ideas Digging Deeper into Ideas Openness and Courage to Explore Ideas Listening to One's Inner Voice

Manual
Fair	Manual describes each instrument, outlines the procedure for administering and scoring the inventories, and suggests possible applications of the results.

Validity
Poor	Data not available.

Reliability
Poor	Data not available.

Utility
Fair	Any professional can administer the test to individuals or groups. The parent survey lacks explicit direction on administering the interest section to the child and lacks information on how to record the data. Poor formatting of the student answer sheet decreases the ease of administration. However, the feedback form is clear and offers understandable scoring interpretation.

Interpretation

Fair

Five scores are reported addressing interests and talent areas; academic motivational characteristics, creative thinking ability, visual and performing arts.The teacher Inventory items seem mixed in level and style; student self-report items seem to be questions of style leaning towards an Explorer preference, although # 19 seems to tape type; parent inventory items tap mostly style while # 22 looks at type.

Propriety
Poor	Not addressed in the manual

Reviews & Related Lit

TiP V, 1999) Reviews in widely referenced sources (e.g., MMY): MMY #10, 1989: Newman, D. L. “The attempt to include parents in the assessment process in a direct manner is to be commended; however, the present format necessitates an assumption that all children have a parent who is willing and able to conduct that portion of the instrument.” Rust, J. O. “The chief strength of the survey is that the parent’s, child’s and teacher’s opinions are all used. It makes good sense to include a broad range of opinions in developing instructional decisions about talented youngsters. A second relative strength … is the focus on student interest. …The survey is weakened by its lack of information about reliability, validity, and normative data.”

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Test Number	3
Title	Abedi Creativity Test
Author	Jamal Abedi
Category	Self-Report Inventory
Copyright Date	1994
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Age/Grade Level	Grade 6+
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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
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Definition	Creative thinking, following Torrance痴 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誰eil, H., Abedi, J., & Spielberger, C. (1994). The measurement and teaching of creativity. In: H. O誰eil and M. Drillings (Eds.). Motivation: Theory and research. (pp. 245-263). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Test Number	4
Title	AC Test of Creative Ability
Author	Harris, R. H.; Simberg, A. L.
Category	Test
Copyright Date	1953/1960
Availability	http://ericae.net/tc3/TC002074.htm
Restrictions
Age/Grade Level	Adults
Cost	Out of print.
Forms	2 forms, form B is open ended with short answers.
Source	No current source available
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Definition
Purposes	This instrument is designed “to give a measure of quantity and the uniqueness of the ideas an individual can produce in a given situation.”
Characteristics	Generating Ideas

Manual
Poor	No manual available.

Validity
Poor	An in-house study was carried out. All validity evidence is based on small samples.

Reliability
Poor	Equivalence reliability was .75 with 39 cases, internal consistency was found to be .92 on the KR-20. The number of cases was not specified. No data reported on the reliability of sub-scores.

Utility
Good	This paper and pencil test is timed for 80 minutes for the full test. The materials seem clear and well printed. Subjects are asked to write the consequences of a described situation. Scoring keys for uniqueness and quality are developed locally.

Interpretation
Poor	There are 9 scores including: quantity, uniqueness , quality, and total. Scores are based on the number and uniqueness of ideas. The items search for quality, uniqueness, and quantity of responses. Other information needed for interpretation is unavailable.

Propriety
Poor	Bias is reported in the review.

Reviews & Related Lit

(An original review sheet is on file at CCL. TiP III, 1983, MMY #6, 1965) Mayo, S. T. Undoubtedly contaminated by verbal fluency. There is a bias potential around past experience of different individuals. The items are dated. Not recommended. Merrifield, P. R. “…the test items are ingenious and stimulating; they should induce interesting results in situations where semantic, not figural or symbolic, fluency is considered an appropriate measure.” Thompson, A. S. “…this test appears to be soundly constructed to yield a sample of the individual’s productive behavior, for which quantity and quality scores can be derived.” See: Voss, H. G. (1977) The effect of experimentally induced activation on creativity. Journal of Psychology. 96, 3-9. Albaum, G., & Baker, K. (1977). Cross-validation of a creativity scale for the adjective check list. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 37(4), 1057-1061. Bessmer, M. A., & Ramanaiah, N. V. (1981). Convergent and discriminant validity of selected need scales from the Adjective Check List and Personality Research Form. Psychological Reports, 49(1), 311-316. Domino, G. (1970). Identification of potentially creative persons from the Adjective Check List. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 35 (1), 48-51. Gough, H. (1979). A creative personality scale for the Adjective Check List. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37(8), 1398-1405. Ironson, G. H., & Davis, G. A. (1979). Faking high or low creativity scores on the Adjective Check List. Journal of Creative Behavior, 13(2), 139-145.

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