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A snapshot of creativity: Evaluating a quick and simple method for assessing divergent thinking
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Creativity assessment commonly uses open-ended divergent thinking tasks. The typical methods for scoring these tasks (uniqueness scoring and subjective ratings) are time-intensive, however, so it is impractical for researchers to include divergent thinking as an ancillary construct. The present research evaluated snapshot scoring of divergent thinking tasks, in which the set of responses receives a single holistic rating. We compared snapshot scoring to top-two scoring, a time-intensive, detailed scoring method. A sample of college students (n = 226) completed divergent thinking tasks and measures of personality and art expertise. Top-two scoring had larger effect sizes, but snapshot scoring performed well overall. Snapshot scoring thus appears promising as a quick and simple approach to assessing creativity.
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- Authors
- Silvia, P. J., Martin, C., & Nusbaum, E. C.
- Venue
- Thinking Skills and Creativity
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-08
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 79-85
- ISSN
- 1871-1871 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2082350726
- Cited by
- 277
- References
- 44
- FWCI
- 8.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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