Notes on Creative Potential and Its Measurement1

• Authors: Maciej Karwowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The discussion raised by the Glăveanu target paper (Glăveanu, 2014) continues in the second issue of “Creativity. Theories – Research – Applications” (CTRA). In this editorial I focus on two elements shared by commentators whose articles are presented in this issue, namely: creative potential and its measurement. I start with the observation that potential is probably the most fuzzy and poorly defined construct in the creativity literature (and likely social science as a whole). As a result of different operationalizations of this category, its valid and reliable measurement is difficult – though not impossible – but, more importantly, several different theories of potential are being developed simultaneously. I focus mainly on critiques of the measurement of creative potential and show how recent developments in psychometrics make it more valid and reliable than critics tend to realize.

Keywords

EN

Creativity measurement; Creative potential; Adaptive testing

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 4-16

Dates

published

2015-06-01

received

2015-03-23

revised

2015-03-31

accepted

2015-04-03

online

2015-05-26

Contributors

author

Maciej Karwowski

• Academy of Special Education, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ctra-2015-0001