Abstract

GRIMALDO SALAZAR, Edgar  and  CHAVEZ SOTO, Blanca Ivet. Torrance verbal-a creativity test: Evidence of Psychometric Validity in Mexican Elementary School Students. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.2, pp.70-93. ISSN 1409-4703.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/aie.v23i2.52858.

Creativity is defined as the ability to be sensitive to problems, deficiencies, and information gaps which facilitates the emergence of new ideas for individual and social problem solving. Hence, it is important the development of instruments to evaluate them during early stages for educational program planning to enhance such skills in students. This investigation aimed at the validation of the Torrance Verbal Test of Creative Thinking. For this reason, 107 elementary students from a State of Mexico public school were assessed during the 2017-2018 academic year with Torrance Creative Thinking Test, Verbal and Figural as well as Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (CPM form), who were at least 9 years old and maximum of 12 years. To learn about psychometric validity, different statistical procedures were done which allowed corroborating the accuracy of the instrument. For the TCTT-VERBAL, a result of .910 was obtained for levels of internal consistency through Cronbach's alpha, as for the convergent validity, Pearson's correlation showed positive and significant associations between indicators and global score of TCTT-VERBAL and the total score of the figural version (0.473**). No significant correlations were found between TCTT-VERBAL and visual spatial reasoning which confirms divergent validity. The TCTT-VERBAL is considered to meet the statistical criteria for its use to assess children in elementary school and there is an agreement with different authors by acknowledging that divergent thinking is expressed through different microdomains.

Keywords : creativity; psychological tests; primary education; imagination.

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