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Creativity Tests:  Creativity Assessment Packet (Williams, 1980)

    The Creativity Assessment Packet is comprised of the Exersise in Divergent Feeling, Exersise in Divergent Thinking and Williams Scale

    1. The Exersise in Divergent Feeling is a 50-item creativity assessment that provides scores for overall creativity, curiosity, imagination, complexity, and risk taking

    2. Exersise in Divergent Thinking includes a figural assessment of creativity where the respondant is asked to complete a series of 12 incomplete drawings in an original way and create a title.  The end product is assessment on originality, fluency, flexibility, and elaboration.  The title is scores based on length, complexity, creativity and humor.

    3. Williams Scale is an assessment of creativity completed by the child's parent or teacher.  It contains 48-items assessing originality, fluency, flexibility, elaboration, curiosity, imagination, complexity, and risk taking.
     

Example
An example might be
My child has a vivid imagination 
Strongly   Disagree    Neutral    Agree    Strongly                                                                                 
Disagree                                    Agree
                                                
 
Administration
Completed by a parent or caregiver.
 
 
Also See:

Preschool and Kindergarden Interests Descriptors
 

 

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Last updated: July/19/2003, by SUngWooK
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