Predictive Factors for Creativity in Writing

• In Event: 18.062 - Predicting Growth, Achievement, and Creativity: Conceptual and Methodological Advances

Abstract

Student writing samples were assessed for creativity according to three creativity scales. Regression analyses was conducted to examine the test item relationship to the student’s overall score in creativity. Additionally, exploratory factor analysis was used to examine underlying structures and the existing relationship between factors and students’ writing sample scores. Analyses showed little variance accounted for when utilizing instruments designed to assess general creativity to evaluate domain specific creative products.
Keywords: creativity, creative writing, domain general, domain specific

Authors

• Kristen Lamb, University of North Texas

• Todd Kettler, University of North Texas

• J Helen McGregor, University of North Texas