1. The Miniscat: Its Development and Some Evidence of Its Validity
- Author
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Mervin D. Lynch and Thomas M. Edwards
- Subjects
Elementary grade ,Applied Mathematics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,050401 social sciences methods ,050301 education ,Test validity ,Creativity ,Education ,Associative learning ,Test (assessment) ,Developmental psychology ,0504 sociology ,Story completion test ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Psychology ,0503 education ,Social psychology ,Applied Psychology ,Reliability (statistics) ,media_common - Abstract
The Miniscat designed as an elementary grade creativity test, includes word doublets (e.g., peanut and fly) to be responded to by a third word (e.g., butter). Items represent six different associative rule structures. Children in grades 1 and 3 were judged as high or low in creativity from their responses to a story completion test. High creativity examinees did have appreciably higher Miniscat scores than did low creativity examinees—an outcome supporting the validity of the test. Scores for grade 3 were higher than for grade 1 on one form of the test (form B) but not on another (form A). Girls scored higher than boys on form A but not on form B. Split-half reliability coefficients were high and consistent. Judges of creativity were themselves tested for creativity; their creativity scores were unrelated to their judgments of children's creativity—a finding that failed to support the notion that it takes a creative person to recognize one.
- Published
- 1974