The influence of listening to humor on creativity tests of adolescents is investigated. It was found that those adolescents who listened to the record performed significantly better on a creativity test than control groups. (Author/DEP)

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This study attempts to determine the extent of agreement on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking scores among independent scorers with no training other than individual study of the scoring guides, and a scorer trained by Torrance. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between measures of creativity and to determine how success on one measure might be used to predict success for Blacks on another. (Author)

The relationship between the tendency to opposite responding on word-association tests and creativity or originality was tested in this experiment. (Author)

The article lists and briefly describes 78 noncommercially available instruments useful in studying and measuring creative behavior and creative talent. In addition to a brief description of the instrument, each entry lists the author(s) and the journal or publication reporting on the instrument. (DLS)

Although early childhood education in America has always had the creative child at the core of its approach, the field itself has generated little systematic research on the topic. In contrast, the scholarly field of creativity studies, with its focus on basic research and theoretical questions, has impacted education only slightly. Creativity and…

The relationship of the Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT) to three independent measures of creativity: a verbal task, nonverbal task and teacher ratings were investigated. The purpose of this investigation was to test the validity of the SCWT as a measure of creativity. (Author/DEP)

A nonmetric multidimensional analysis is used to identify the subscale structure of a creativity inventory. The instrument used assesses attitudes, interests, motivations, values, and other personality and biographical matters which characterize creative individuals. (Author)

Some of the conceptual and methodological problems in identifying and measuring creativity in young children are presented. Among the issues raised are: (1) the prediction of validity of creativity tests, (2) the problem of predicting adult creativity from evidence of childhood creativity, and (3) the need to identify and adequately measure the…

Six guidelines for designing an instrument to measure creativity are presented with a focus on the psychometric and definitional concerns. The Detroit Public School Creative Product Scales is described as a possible approach for measuring creativity. (Author)

Four scales of innovativeness were administered to two samples of undergraduate students: the Open Processing Scale, Innovativeness Scale, innovation subscale of the Jackson Personality Inventory, and Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. Intercorrelations indicated the scales generally exhibited convergent validity. (GDC)