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Cropley, David H.; Kaufman, James C. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2012
The Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (CSDS) is a 30-item scale based on a core of four criteria: Relevance & Effectiveness, Novelty, Elegance, and Genesis. The CSDS offers potential for the consensual assessment of functional product creativity. This article describes an empirical study in which non-expert judges rated a series of mousetrap…
Descriptors: Expertise, Creativity, Identification, Measures (Individuals)
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Kaufman, James C.; Cole, Jason C.; Baer, John – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2009
Several thousand subjects completed self-report questionnaires about their own creativity in 56 discrete domains. This sample was then randomly divided into three subsamples that were subject to factor analyses that compared an oblique model (with a set of correlated factors) and a hierarchical model (with a single second-order, or hierarchical,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Measurement Techniques, Models, Comparative Analysis
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Lipshitz, Raanan; Waingortin, Mario – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1995
Two hypotheses derived from the theory of action identification, which predicts that people are more likely to adopt a novel course of action if they concentrate on the "how" rather than the "why" aspects of their behavior, were tested with 95 undergraduate students. Hypotheses examined how the level of action identification…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, College Students
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Plucker, Jonathan A. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2004
The question of whether creativity is content general or content specific is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary creativity research. Recent studies provide support for both positions, but the results of these investigations may be influenced by several factors, including the presence of a method effect (i.e., psychometric vs.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Structural Equation Models, Alternative Assessment, Psychometrics