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Expertise, Domains, and the Consensual Assessment Technique
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The Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) argues that the most valid judgments of the creativity are those of the combined opinions of experts in the field. Yet who exactly qualifies as an expert to evaluate a creative product such as a short story? This study examines both novice and expert judgments of student short fiction. Results indicate a need for caution in using non‐expert raters. Although there was only a small (but statistically significant) difference between experts' and novices' mean ratings, the correlation between the two sets of ratings was just .71. Experts were also far more consistent in their ratings compared to novices, whose level of inter‐rater reliability was potentially problematic.
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“In line with creativity research that utilizes the CAT35–37, poets were given the poems in different, randomly generated orders and asked to rate the creativity of each poem on a 1 (lowest creativity score) to 40 (highest creativity score) scale.”
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- KAUFMAN, J. C., BAER, J., & COLE, J. C.
- Affiliations
- California State University, San Bernardino (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Creative Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 223-233
- ISSN
- 0022-0175 (ISSN-L)
- 2162-6057
- OpenAlex
- W2044474488
- Cited by
- 210
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Creative Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Artistic and Creative Research
- Keywords
- Consensual Assessment Technique, creativity assessment, expert opinion, inter-rater reliability, rater expertise, rater consistency
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