When I first heard of creativity tests I was surprised that this should be possible but I was quickly convinced that at least some aspects can indeed be tested relatively straitforward:
1) Originality—statistical infrequency of response
2) Fluency—number of responses
3) Flexibility—the degree of difference of the responses, in other words do they come from a single domain or multiple
domains
4) Elaboration—the amount of detail of the response
(these are from the web here but recurr in standard tests like William’s Creativity Assessment Packet (CAP) and real scoring instructions that I have seen are interestingly simple to do. More interesting are actual examples provided which show the range of creativity. And that is where I think one can actually learn to be creative: By reproducing certain dimensions of creativity. That may sound like a contradiction in terms but I have found from self-practice that many creative ideas build on earlier ones. And the earlier ones apparently don’t neccessarily need to be your own :-)
While looking for accessible material online I found these:
A marketing campaign which stimulates creativity
and a thesis which adapts the CAP to an online setting and may give you a feel of creativity tests in practice.
When I first heard of creativity tests I was surprised that this should be possible but I was quickly convinced that at least some aspects can indeed be tested relatively straitforward:
(these are from the web here but recurr in standard tests like William’s Creativity Assessment Packet (CAP) and real scoring instructions that I have seen are interestingly simple to do. More interesting are actual examples provided which show the range of creativity. And that is where I think one can actually learn to be creative: By reproducing certain dimensions of creativity. That may sound like a contradiction in terms but I have found from self-practice that many creative ideas build on earlier ones. And the earlier ones apparently don’t neccessarily need to be your own :-)
While looking for accessible material online I found these: A marketing campaign which stimulates creativity and a thesis which adapts the CAP to an online setting and may give you a feel of creativity tests in practice.
Found the artical I mentioned first: Torrance Test of Creative Thinking—TTCT Read it, It contains lots of illustrative examples—many very creative.