Essentials of Creativity Assessment / Edition 1

by James C. Kaufman, Jonathan A. Plucker, John Baer

Overview

Discover practical, step-by-step instructions for accurately and effectively assessing creativity with Essentials of Creativity Assessment, a guide that provides useful information about using solid theoretical and research-based evidence for creativity assessment. Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively assess creativity, a popular measure of cognitive ability correlated with intelligence. Receive an overview of the wide variety of assessments that can be used to gauge creativity, enabling you to select the creativity assessment method that best fits the situations, groups of people, and programs that are involved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470137420
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/04/2008
Series:	Essentials of Psychological Assessment , #53
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

James C. Kaufman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he is also the director of the Learning Research Institute. He has published over 120 books, articles, and chapters.

Jonathan A. Plucker, PhD, is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.

John Baer, PhD, is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He has published several books and scores of research articles and book chapters on creativity, cooperative learning, and other educational psychology topics.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Series Preface.

One. Introduction to Creativity.

Two. Divergent Thinking Tests.

Three. The Consensual Assessment Technique.

Four. Assessment by Others: Teacher, Peer, and Parent Measures.

Five. Self Assessment.

Six. Creativity, Intelligence, and Giftedness.

Seven. Moving Forward.

References.

Annotated Bibliography.

Index.

About the Authors.