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Torrance® Tests of Creative Thinking
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Figural TTCT®: Thinking Creatively with Pictures
The highly reliable Torrance® Tests of Creative Thinking are the most widely
used tests of their kind since testing only requires the examinee to reflect
upon their life experiences. These tests invite examinees to draw and give a
title to their drawings (pictures) or to write questions, reasons, consequences
and different uses for objects (words). These instruments have been used for
identification of the creatively gifted and as a part of gifted matrices in
states and districts in the USA, especially in multicultural settings, and for
special populations around the world. Order them now to assist with your
assessment and identification tasks. Published in two equivalent forms, Forms A
and B, the Figural and Verbal TTCT can be used for pre- and posttesting.
The Figural TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Pictures is appropriate at all
levels, kindergarten through adult. It uses three picture-based exercises to
assess five mental characteristics:
• fluency
• resistance to premature closure
• elaboration
• abstractness of titles
• originality
The Figural TTCT can be scored locally or by STS. Both methods employ the
streamlined scoring procedure. Streamlined scoring provides standardized scores
for the mental characteristics listed above as well as for the following
creative strengths:
• emotional expressiveness
• internal visualization
• storytelling articulateness
• extending or breaking boundaries
• movement or action
• humor
• expressiveness of titles
• richness of imagery
• synthesis of incomplete figures
• colorfulness of imagery
• synthesis of lines or circles
• fantasy
• unusal visualization
With Figural TTCT Streamlined Scoring two different norm types are available:
grade-related norms and age-related norms. Grade-related norms for the Figural
TTCT use one set of norms for each of the grades for which the test is
appropriate, including the adult level. Age-related norms are based on the
typical age for each of the grades in which the Figural TTCT may be used. They
range from five to eighteen years and beyond.
Required for local scoring, the Figural TTCT Norms-Technical Manual includes
2007 national norm tables with standard scores and national percentiles by grade
and age for each score area. The tables also show national percentiles for
average standard scores, as well as a creativity index developed from the five
standardized scores and thirteen creative strengths. A Streamlined Scoring Guide
is also required for local scoring.
Author: Dr. E. Paul Torrance
Level: Kindergarten–Adult
Working Time: 30 minutes
Verbal TTCT®: Thinking Creatively with Words
Appropriate for first graders through adults, the Verbal TTCT: Thinking
Creatively with Words uses six word-based exercises to assess three mental
characteristics:
• fluency
• flexibility
• originality
These exercises provide opportunities to ask questions, to improve products, and
to “just suppose.”
The Verbal TTCT can be scored locally or by STS. If a school chooses to score
the test locally, the Manual for Scoring and Interpreting Results provides an
easy-to-use scoring method. The Verbal TTCT uses one set of grade-related norms
for each of the grades which is age appropriate, including the adult level.
Age-related norms are based on the typical age for each of the grades in which
the Verbal TTCT may be used. They range from age six to eighteen years and
beyond.
Required for local scoring, the Verbal Norms-Technical Manual includes 2007
national norm tables with standard scores and national percentiles by grade and
age for each score area. Both manuals are required for local scoring.
Author: Dr. E. Paul Torrance
Level: Grade 1–Adult
Working Time: 45 minutes
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