Construct validation of Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

The purpose of the present study was to examine the construct validity of the TTCT, which showed ongoing conflict regarding its dimensionality. The results can be summarized as follows. First of all, exploratory factor analysis was administered to at the level of task activities measuring creativity factors of divergent thinking. Next, a confirmatory rotation was performed to confirm whether the results obtained by exploratory factor analysis were generalizable. Therefore, total of three factor was derived; two factors representing task effect(i.e. Task 2 and Task 3), and one factor representing creativity measured by TTCT. Second, we tried to answer the long controversies have been raised continually whether TTCT is a single dimensional or multidimensional. To examine the dimensionality of TTCT, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test the fit of one factor model, and two factor model mentioned in the extent literature, and three factor model of this study. The result shows that the construct measured by TTCT is dimensional, which is not in accord with Torrance's view. It also demonstrated that task activities in TTCT measure both cognition factor and task factor, suggesting that TTCT is a tool of measuring situated cognition.

keywords: Creativity Assessment, Divergent Thinking Test, Structure of TTCT, Task effect, Creativity Assessment, Divergent Thinking Test, Structure of TTCT, Task effect, 창의성 측정, 확산적 사고 검사, TTCT 구조 모형, 과제효과

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Construct validation of Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

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