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Measuring Creativity in Students

Measuring Creativity in Students. Steven E. Stemler, Ph.D. Wesleyan University 12.08.11. 4 Approaches to Measuring Creativity. Creative Person Creative Product Creative Process Creative Environment. 1. Creative Person. Key Issues Big-C v. Little-C Creativity

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Measuring Creativity in Students

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  1. Measuring Creativity in Students Steven E. Stemler, Ph.D. Wesleyan University 12.08.11

  2. 4 Approaches to Measuring Creativity • Creative Person • Creative Product • Creative Process • Creative Environment

  3. 1. Creative Person • Key Issues • Big-C v. Little-C Creativity • Self-enhancement/Social Desirability via Self-Report

  4. 1. Creative Person • Assumptions of the Approach • Personality Trait • Relatively Fixed • Typical Measurement • Adjective Checklists • Self-reports, External evaluations • Known relations • Openness to new experience, Tolerance for Ambiguity • Curious, Active, Adventurous, Enthusiastic • Self-confident, resourceful, industrious

  5. 2. Creative Product • Key Issues • Domain-specific v. Domain-general • Judgment of products (Psychometric issues with Portfolios)

  6. 2. Creative Product • Typical Measurement • Student Theses or Capstone Experiences • Domain-specific products • http://thewondrous.com/2009/08/10-photos-of-most-creative-dog-grooming-show/ • Rainbow Measures • Oral and Written Stories • Known relations • Predicts FYGPA1 • Reduced Ethnic Differences in Achievement 1 Sternberg, R.J., and the Rainbow Project Collaborators (2006). The Rainbow Project: Enhancing the SAT through assessments of analytical, practical, and creative skills. Intelligence, 34, 321-350.

  7. 3. Creative Process • Key Issues • Cognitive Subcomponents of Creativity • Little-C Creativity • Domain-general v. Domain-specific • Relationship to actual achievement/products • High-fidelity v. Low-fidelity assessment • Apollo 13 – Square Peg in a Round Hole • http://movieclips.com/ukKJv-apollo-13-movie-square-peg-in-a-round-hole/

  8. 3. Creative Process • Assumptions of the Approach • Domain-general processes • Typical Measurement • Divergent Thinking Tasks • Functional Fixedness • Adaptability/Mental Flexibility • Known relations • Relate to FYGPA2 • Relates to Life Satisfaction 2 Matthew & Stemler (2008). Exploring pattern recognition as a predictor of mental flexibility. Final report submitted to the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.

  9. 3. Creative Process • Room Task • Adaptability • Story Task • Flexibility • Maze Task • Adaptability • Word Recognition Task • Flexibility/Fluency

  10. Word Recognition Test

  11. 4. Creative Environment • Industrial/Organizational Approach • Conditions that Stimulate Creativity? • Supervisory encouragement • Freedom to choose and work on assignments • Sufficient resources • Optimal workload pressures • Some degree of constraint

  12. Key Issues in the Measurement of Creativity • Big-C v. Little-C • Domain-specific v. Domain-general • Cognitive Subcomponents of Creativity • How to judge products/portfolio assessment • High-fidelity v. Low-fidelity assessment

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