Torrance Test of Creative Thinking
The Figural TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Pictures is appropriate at all levels, kindergarten through adult. It uses three picture-based exercises to assess five mental characteristics:| · fluency | · resistance to premature closure | |
| · elaboration | · abstractness of titles | |
| · originality | ||
Streamlined scoring provides standardized scores for the mental characteristics listed above as well as for the following creative strengths:
| · emotional expressiveness | · internal visualization | |
| · storytelling articulateness | · extending or breaking boundaries | |
| · movement or action | · humor | |
| · expressiveness of titles | · richness of imagery | |
| · synthesis of incomplete figures | · colorfulness of imagery | |
| · synthesis of lines or circles | · fantasy | |
| · unusal visualization | ||
Appropriate for first graders through adults, the Verbal TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Words uses six word-based exercises to assess three mental characteristics:
| · fluency | · flexibility | · originality |
These exercises provide opportunities to ask questions, to improve products, and to "just suppose."
Example, Figural TTCT
What might this be?
Responses:
- A smooshed spider
- A star
- A set of mini blinds caught in a tornado
Scoring
To score the TTCT you will need "Manual for Scoring and Interpreting Results", obtainable from the Torrance Center, or from Scholastic Testing Service. The manual includes national norms, standard scores, and national percentiles for each age level.
Administration
To administer the Torrance you should have experience administrating tests (e.g., you are a teacher, counselor, school staff, or work for an accredited school, college, or governmental agency, or are conducting research as a graduate student working under a supervising faculty member)
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The Torrance Center offers training workshops
Also see similar tests:
Guilford’s Alternative Uses Task (1967)
For more information about this course, please e-mail Professor Curtis J. Bonk (cjbonk(at)indiana.edu)
Indiana University School of Education
Department of Instructional Systems Technology
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
