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: Divergent Thinking
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.
Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking: What They Are and Why Both Matter in the Classroom
Creative thinking is not a single process but the combination of two: divergent thinking, which generates many possible answers, and convergent thinking, which selects the most appropriate one. What each is and how to integrate both in the classroom.
Creativity and Problem Solving: The Method That Changes How You Think
Almost every problem-solving method assumes the problem is already well defined, but most real problems don’t work that way. What creative problem solving (CPS) is, what the evidence shows, and how to apply it in your work.