ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022
What do educators need to know about the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking: A comprehensive review.
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- The association between cognitive flexibility and creativity across childhood and adolescence: a scoping review.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- From Research to Practice: Enhancing Creativity Awareness in Education.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and openness to experience as predictors of academic success among high-achieving and typical-achieving medical students.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Scoring Originality in Mathematical Problem-Solving: Comparison of Criterion-Referenced Scoring with Alternate Measures.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Can the Components of Physical Fitness Be Linked to Creative Thinking and Fluid Intelligence in Spanish Schoolchildren?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Acculturative stress, loneliness, smartphone addiction, L2 emotions, and creativity among international students in China: a structural equation model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Can Creative Thinking Predict Academic Success in Medical Education? Correlating Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Scores and Five-year GPAs of Japanese Medical Students.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2025Article
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Abstract
One of the most important questions that educators try to answer is how to prepare new generations of students for an unpredictable future. Students need to learn several skills, such as creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication (the 4 Cs). Creativity, especially, is an essential skill in a complex and unforeseeable world/era, and an important step in any effort to enhance creativity is to identify students' creative strengths and relative weaknesses. This review aims to offer school psychologists and other educators such as teachers, policymakers, and curriculum designers a comprehensive and practical guide to one of the most well-known creativity assessments-the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) that was developed by E. Paul Torrance in the 1960s. The paper discusses the history, components, training, psychometric properties, and uses of the TTCT. Contrary to the notion that the TTCT is only a measure of divergent thinking skills, the current article presents its other uses. It is the authors' hope that teachers, school psychologists, and other educators will find the information reported in this article useful to better understand the TTCT and use it most effectively.
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