Abstract

WECHSLER, Solange Muglia. Avaliação multidimensional da criatividade: uma realidade necessáriaMultidimensional creativity assessment: an urgent reality. Psicol. esc. educ. [online]. 1998, vol.2, n.2, pp. 89-99. ISSN 1413-8557.

Assessment of creativity has been, up to the present time, mostly based on divergent thinking measures, searching for an unique formula for its identification. Our objective is to demonstrate the need to evaluate creativity under various perspectives, focusing its expression on specific tasks. A battery of instruments to assess creativity in a multidimensional way is presented, composed by two international tests, Thinking Creatively with Pictures and Thinking Creatively with Words and two national tests, of our authorship, Styles of Thinking and Creating, and Self-descriptors Adjectives. The process of validation of these instruments is presented, demonstrating the possibility of measuring some of the interactions among the dimensions of person, process and environment as related to creativity. Concluding, it is emphasized the need to search for instruments tested under psychometry criteria, to allow for a more comprehensive understanding and multidimensional approach on the assessment of creativity.

Keywords : Creativity; Multidimensional assessment; Psychological tests.

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