Predictive validity of teacher ratings of creativity over 2 years |
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| Authors: | John C. Houtz Carol D. Lewis Dennis J. Shaning Robert M. Denmark |
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| Affiliation: | Fordham University U.S.A.;New York City Board of Education U.S.A.;Private Practice, Randolph, N.J., U.S.A.;Seton Hall University U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Fifty white, suburban middle-class children were tested in the fourth grade with six divergent thinking tests developed from Guilford's SOI model and in the sixth grade with the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, Verbal Form A. In the fourth grade, these students' classroom teachers completed for each of them the Scale for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students. With IQ and reading and math achievement controlled via partial correlations, Guilford-like and Torrance measures were significantly correlated over 2 years but only teachers' rating of students as “sensitive to beauty and the aesthetic characteristics of things” was significantly related over 2 years to creativity measures. This characteristic appeared to be most crucial in the prediction of creativity for boys. |
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