Psychological Development and Education ›› 2005, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (4): 94-98.

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Construction of Self-assessment Test on Creative Thinking Abilities of High School Students

LUO Fang, MENG Qing-mao   

  1. Psychology College, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2005-10-15 Published:2005-10-15

Abstract: Creative thinking is composed of many thinking styles,and creative thinking ability is a multi-dimensional structure.The instruments are meant to be maximal performance tests that cannot have a comprehensive and complete assessment of creative thinking ability which has a multi-dimensional structure.Creative thinking ability has been regarded by some researchers as an intrinsic and stable intellective attribute of individuals which can be assessed through Typical Performance Tests.Such an approach was used in the present thesis,in which a set of creative thinking ability self-assessing Test was composed to evaluates typical habits and behaviors of individuals in real life.Both theoretical and empirical approaches were adopted in the present thesis,yielding the following findings:(1) This study constructed a ten-dimensional structure of creative thinking ability as evaluation dimensions;(2) After two times examining,the formal test was composed,with good reliability and validity.

Key words: creative thinking, creative thinking ability, typical performance tests

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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