Based on her novel notions on the fundamental nature of creativity and the psychosocial need for an adequate assessment, Amabile (1983) proposes consensual assessment technique (CAT) to provide a "product-based" quantitative approach to evaluate creativity.
The essence of CAT is that it delineates factors that influence and determine the "product" to be truly "creative", and emphasizes that a product or an observable reaction is the testimony of creativity.
Amabile (1983) also implies creativity is not an individual phenomenon, but consists of three major components: task motivation, expertise and creativity skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the validity of Amabile's component model of creativity and to apply his model into the essay writings in primary school students, hence to test the attribution of CAT in providing a valid appraisal in creativity assessment.
A "product-based" CAT was performed on 110 essays with 5 different topics written by 22 6th grade school students. A group of Chinese experts, made up of 3 children literature professors and 6 experienced primary school teachers, are in charge of evaluating all these essays. The evaluated results are used to determine if to determine if Amabile's model can be comparable to current psychosocial norms and if it can accurately delineates individual's creativity talent.
According to our hypothetical working framework, the following results were expected;
(1)motivation has a positive effect on creativity,
(2)professional techniques have a positive effect on creativity
(3)creative technique has a positive effect on creativity
(4)the results of CAT showed a mutual consensus on defining creativity amongst the professional judges.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0913106-151027 |
| Date | 13 September 2006 |
| Creators | Yao, Ting-hsiu |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0913106-151027 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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