| Test Number |
59 |
| Title |
Starkweather Originality Test |
| Author |
Starkweather, E. K. |
| Category |
Test |
| Copyright Date |
1974 |
| Availability |
Out of print |
| Restrictions |
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| Age/Grade Level |
Ages 3.5 - 6.5 |
| Cost |
No current information available |
| Forms |
Two forms: A and B |
| Source |
No current information available |
| Address |
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| Phone |
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| Fax |
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| web or e-mail |
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| Definition |
Creativity involved flexibility, fluency, originality, elaboration. |
| Purposes |
Designed to measure the creative potential of preschool children |
| Characteristics |
Generating Ideas |
| Manual |
| Poor |
No current information available |
| Validity |
| Good |
Compared scores of 13 children with freedom of expression by observing each child playing with simple toys. Compared teacher’ judgments with children’s scores. Chi-square for 306 students paired by high/low scores =17.39; p<.01. Correlation of 18 childre |
| Reliability |
| Good |
Split-half based on 76 children form .86 on both forms. Inter judge reliability was .99 based on 144 cases. |
| Utility |
| Good |
Instructions are clear. Four different colored sets of 10 different shapes of plastic are presented to the student two sets at a time. the child removes each piece and tells what it might be. The number of different responses are counted, 40 possible. Scoring seems straight forward. |
| Interpretation |
| Poor |
No current information available. |
| Propriety |
| Poor |
No current information available. |
| Reviews & Related Lit |
| Starkweather, E. K. (1966). Pre-school research and evaluation project. Stillwater, OK: Oklahoma State University. Starkweather, E. K. (1964). Problems in the measurement of creativity in preschool children. Journal of Educational Measurement, 1, 109-113. |
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