| Test Number |
44 |
| Title |
Owens’ Creativity Test |
| Author |
Owens, W. A |
| Category |
Test |
| Copyright Date |
1960 |
| Availability |
Out of print |
| Restrictions |
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| Age/Grade Level |
Adults |
| Cost |
No current information available |
| Forms |
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| Source |
No current information available |
| Address |
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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 |
| Manual |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Reliability |
| Fair |
Split-half correlations ranged from .38 to .91; no other reliability data. |
| Utility |
| Fair |
This measure is administered to groups by any professional. Scoring information is not available. |
| Interpretation |
| 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.” |
| Propriety |
| Poor |
No information available. |
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