MEASURING CREATIVITY

INTRODUCTION
Creativity is that characteristic of human behavior that seems the most mysterious, and yet most critical for human advancement. The capacity to solve problems in new ways and to produce works that are novel, appropriate, and socially valued is an ability that has fascinated people for centuries.

WHY SHOULD WE MEASURE CREATIVITY?

The challenge of measuring creativity adequately is at the core of being able to take adequate decisions and propose initiatives. It is not enough to put in place policies for the promotion of creativity, it is also necessary to monitor if the policies in place are or not being effective. core of measuring creativity is to able to take adequate decisions and propose initiatives.

TECHNIQUES TO MEASURE CREATIVITY

There are various means to measure creativity. Some of them are as follows:
TORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVITY RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST MBTI

TORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVITY

The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking consists of nonverbal and verbal forms, Thinking Creatively with Pictures and Thinking Creatively with Words. fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration are its components or tools which are used to measure the level of creativity.

MBTI
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers & Briggs, 1999) is a self-report measure designed to assess individuals preferences for different types of information processing. Composed of nearly 300 forced-choice items, individuals are rated on four dimensions:
Introversion-extraversion, Intuitive-sensing, Thinking-feeling, and Perceiving-judging.

RORSHCACH INKBLOT TEST

This psychodynamic model is the basis for projective test technique that is developed to interpret an individuals instinctual drives, motives, and defenses. The basic assumption of projective tests is that subjects responses to vague stimuli will tend to portray personality style. Inkblots and pictures of human situations are commonly used

CONCLUSION
Though these test are available to measure the level of creativity of an individual . The most appropriate level to define creativity is through the TORRANCE test of creativity approach. It gives us a validated and examined data for processing . Where as the other test that are available are subject to the examiners control of opinion and can liable to vary from person to person basis.

CONTD
The concept of measurement of creativity is to take appropriate , adequate decisions and to propose new creative initiative for the betterment of the society aas a whole.