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Creativity Assessment Packet (Williams, 1980)

(For more information, contact Gayle Dow, Indiana University)

There are three components to the Creativity Assessment Packet:

  1. The Exercise in Divergent Feeling is a 50-item creativity assessment that provides scores for overall creativity, curiosity, imagination, complexity, and risk taking.
  2. Exercise in Divergent Thinking includes a figural assessment of creativity where the examinee 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. The 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

Please respond to the following questions about your child

My child has a vivid imagination

Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree

Scoring

Scoring is 1 point for correct and 0 for incorrect.

Administration

The Creativity Assessment Packet is administered by a parent, caregiver, or teacher.
You can order the test from the publishers: https://www.proedinc.com/Products/6565/creativity-assessment-packet-cap.aspx

Also see

Insight Problems


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