The prediction of adult creative achievement from childhood measures: A longitudinal study in Australia, 1960-1983 (ttct) [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3287509
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Howieson, Noel Dolores
- Description:
- 197 p.
- Summary:
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In 1960, Dr. Paul Torrance undertook a cross-cultural study into discontinuities in developmental norms for creative thinking. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) were given to all the children in two elementary schools across seven cultures. In 1980 he conducted a follow-up study on the white American sample, which gathered data on real-life creative achievement of the original schoolchildren two decades later. The present research involved a similar follow-up study of the Australian children involved in the original 1960 Torrance study. A total of 306 young adults were available in 1983 of the original sample of 1,067 elementary schoolchildren. These subjects gave self-report data of creative achievements that yielded four criterion measures: Quantity and Quality of Public Creative Achievement and Quantity and Quality of Personal Creative Achievement. The original 1960 TTCT test scores were validated against each of these criteria.
In addition, the protocols were rescored according to the 1984 streamlined procedures, which added three new predictive variables: Abstractness of Titles, Resistance to Closure, and a checklist of Creative Strengths. The new predictive variables produced higher coefficients of correlation with all of the criteria than the traditional predictors and those for both of the personal level criteria and that for Quality of Public Creative Achievement proved significant at the .05 level or better. The predictions were more accurate for the city school than the rural one and for personal creativity they accounted for 25% of the variance in achievement scores. Stepwise multiple regression analyses were carried out to determine the subset of predictor variables showing greatest predictive value for each criterion. Elaboration proved the most useful of the traditional measures, followed by Originality.
Resistance to Closure made a significant contribution to predictive validity for three of the criteria. The Creative Strengths, which significantly increased R('2) for at least one criterion, were Movement, Humor, and Internal Visual Perspective. Differences in accuracy of prediction with the TTCT across sex and grade were also investigated.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI8411966
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-02, Section: A, page: 0463.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Georgia, 1984.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Psychology
- Other authors/contributors:
- University of Georgia
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- Creation date:
- 1984
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