First-Order and Higher-Order Creative Ability Factors in Structure-of-Intellect Measures Administered to Sixth-Grade Children.

Michael, William B.; Bachelor, Patricia

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Publication Date: 1992

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First-Order and Higher-Order Creative Ability Factors in Structure-of-Intellect Measures Administered to Sixth-Grade Children.

Michael, William B.; Bachelor, Patricia

Educational and Psychological Measurement, v52 n2 p261-73 Sum 1992

A more parsimonious interpretation of the factor structure of creativity tests than that afforded by the original study was found in this reanalysis of a study of 403 sixth graders by P. Merrifield, J. Guilford, and A. Gershon (1963). The prior analysis extracted and rotated too many factors. (SLD)

Descriptors: Correlation, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Elementary School Students, Factor Structure, Goodness of Fit, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Models, Test Construction, Thinking Skills

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