Runco and Acar review decades of research on divergent thinking tests. How reliable they are, what they predict, how they are scored, and why they estimate creative potential rather than measure creativity.
Tag: Creativity Assessment
Does the Torrance Test Measure Creativity? A Question That Remains Open
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) has been, for decades, the most widely used creativity assessment instrument in the world. Its conceptual architecture rests on a well-established premise in the literature: creativity can be operationalised through four fundamental cognitive dimensions — fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration — first formulated by Guilford (1967) and adopted […]
How to Assess Creativity in University Students (Without Falling Into Subjectivity)
Assessing creativity doesn’t have to be subjective: research offers validated tools for doing it with rigor. The three dimensions that can be assessed, analytic rubrics, the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT), and a minimal rubric for the university classroom.