Author(s)

Nazira Píriz Giménez¹, Joselín Cantero², Virginia Mallarini², Jerónimo Tucci³, Diana Shablico^1,2, María Noel López Larrama^1,2

¹Profesorado Semipresencial, Consejo de Formación en Educación, Montevideo, Uruguay.
²Instituto de Profesores “Artigas”, Consejo de Formación en Educación, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³Instituto de Formación Docente de la Costa, Consejo de Formación en Educación, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Creativity is a growing demand in today’s world. Education for creativity takes hierarchy, as well as the search for ways to evaluate its promotion. This paper presents partial results of a research project aimed at the study of the promotion of creative qualities in science education. The CREA test was used as an instrument to evaluate the creativity of students. The results allow us to propose limitations of this test as a tool for a global measure of creativity. The conventional analysis could measure one of the creative qualities: fluidity. The assessment of other creative qualities could benefit from a modified analysis. Some modifications like test time, could improve the measure of flexibility and elaboration. The applicability of the CREA test may not be accompanied by quality to the extent of creative potential.

Promotion of Creativity in the Classroom, Creative Classrooms, Measure of Creativity, CREA Test, Creative Qualities

Giménez, N. , Cantero, J. , Mallarini, V. , Tucci, J. , Shablico, D. and Larrama, M. (2019) Quality and Applicability: Two Necessary Requirements in Instruments That Measure Creative Potential, for Use in the Classroom. Creative Education, 10, 3316-3328. doi: 10.4236/ce.2019.1013255.