The Innovative-Adaptive Two-Factor Model of the TTCT-Figural

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Abstract

The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking-Figural (TTCT-F) is the most extensively used creative thinking measure in U.S. schools, especially for gifted identification. TTCT-F has been thought to be culturally fair across ethnicities and gender, although this belief has rarely been empirically tested. Our study examined the latent structure of the TTCT-F scales: Fluency, Originality, Elaboration, Abstractness of Titles (AT), and Resistance to Premature Closure (RPC), and then investigated measurement invariance across over- and under-represented ethnicities and across genders. Using data obtained from 379 U.S. elementary school students, we identified that the Innovative-Adaptive model, with an additional cross-loading for the RPC scale, was the best fit.

Author

• Yoojoong Kim, University of Georgia