ERIC Number: EJ1119998
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Publication Date: 2016
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Spoken Narrative Assessment: A Supplementary Measure of Children's Creativity
Wong, Miranda Kit-Yi; So, Wing Chee
Creativity Research Journal, v28 n4 p471-477 2016
This study developed a spoken narrative (i.e., storytelling) assessment as a supplementary measure of children's creativity. Both spoken and gestural contents of children's spoken narratives were coded to assess their verbal and nonverbal creativity. The psychometric properties of the coding system for the spoken narrative assessment were investigated with 30 Cantonese-speaking children aged six to nine. The internal consistency and the intercoder agreement were good. In addition, children's scores on the 3 coded variables were moderately correlated with their creativity-relevant skills as measured by Alternate Uses Task (Guilford, 1967) and subjective ratings of creativity provided by judges. Children with higher verbal skills, as measured by Similarities (The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-4th Edition (Hong Kong); WISC-IV HK), also scored higher in the speech composite of the coding system. The findings showed that the coding system of the spoken narrative assessment is reliable and valid for measuring children's creativity objectively. An age-related norm will be established in future.
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Children, Creativity, Story Telling, Correlation, Item Analysis, Intelligence Tests, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Writing Tests, Pictorial Stimuli, Sino Tibetan Languages, Nonverbal Communication, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
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