Extension of the consensual assessment technique to nonparallel creative products

被引:153
作者
Baer, J
Kaufman, JC
Gentile, CA
机构
[1] Rider Univ, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 USA
[2] Calif State Univ San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA 92407 USA
[3] Educ Testing Serv, Princeton, NJ 08541 USA
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D O I
10.1207/s15326934crj1601_11
中图分类号
G44 [教育心理学];
学科分类号
0402 ; 040202 ;
摘要
The consensual technique for assessing creativity is widely used in research, but its validation has been limited to assessing the creativity, of artifacts produced under tightly constrained experimental conditions. Typically, only artifacts produced in response to very similar instructions have been compared. This has allowed researchers to compare such things as the effects of different motivational conditions on creative performance, but it has not allowed many other kinds of comparisons. It has also limited the use of the technique to artifacts gathered for specific experimental purposes, as opposed to already-existing artifacts produced under less controlled conditions. For this study, samples of writings collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress that were written in response to a very wide variety of assignments and under varying conditions were rated for creativity by 13 expert judges. Judges compared the creativity of 103 stories, 103 personal narratives, and 102 poems, all written by 8th-grade students. Very high levels of inter-rater reliability were obtained, demonstrating that the consensual method can be validly extended to such samples. New avenues for future research made possible by these findings are then discussed.
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页码:113 / 117
页数:5
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