TY - JOUR
T1 - Creative Potential of School Children in Hong Kong
T2 - Norms of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests and Their Implications
AU - Cheung, Ping Chung
AU - Lau, Sing
AU - Chan, David W.
AU - Wu, William Y.H.
N1 - This research was supported by grant RGC/93-94/18 from the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
PY - 2004/3
Y1 - 2004/3
N2 - In this research, we normed the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests (Wallach & Kogan, 1965) for the school children in Hong Kong. A representative sample of 1418 students (148 1st graders, 155 2nd graders, 159 3rd graders, 163 4th graders, 162 5th graders, 160 6th graders, 162 7th graders, 159 8th graders, and 150 9th graders) was administered a Chinese version of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests (WKCT), developed in a large-scale pilot study. There was some preliminary evidence of reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the WKCT. Results of the norming study showed that there was generally an increase with grade level in the mean of various indexes (Fluency, Flexibility, Uniqueness, and Unusualness) of creativity from Grade 1 to Grade 3 (individual administration mode) and from Grade 4 to Grade 9 (group administration mode) for both verbal tests and figural tests, besides a significant drop in the mean of the various indexes of creativity for figural tests in Grade 7. No gender differences in the indexes of creativity were found. The norms of this first norming study of the WKCT not only provide information about the creative potential of the school children in Hong Kong, but also facilitate future cross-cultural comparison of the scores of the WKCT in different cultures and societies.
AB - In this research, we normed the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests (Wallach & Kogan, 1965) for the school children in Hong Kong. A representative sample of 1418 students (148 1st graders, 155 2nd graders, 159 3rd graders, 163 4th graders, 162 5th graders, 160 6th graders, 162 7th graders, 159 8th graders, and 150 9th graders) was administered a Chinese version of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests (WKCT), developed in a large-scale pilot study. There was some preliminary evidence of reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the WKCT. Results of the norming study showed that there was generally an increase with grade level in the mean of various indexes (Fluency, Flexibility, Uniqueness, and Unusualness) of creativity from Grade 1 to Grade 3 (individual administration mode) and from Grade 4 to Grade 9 (group administration mode) for both verbal tests and figural tests, besides a significant drop in the mean of the various indexes of creativity for figural tests in Grade 7. No gender differences in the indexes of creativity were found. The norms of this first norming study of the WKCT not only provide information about the creative potential of the school children in Hong Kong, but also facilitate future cross-cultural comparison of the scores of the WKCT in different cultures and societies.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15326934crj1601_7
DO - 10.1207/s15326934crj1601_7
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:1842712397
SN - 1040-0419
VL - 16
SP - 69
EP - 78
JO - Creativity Research Journal
JF - Creativity Research Journal
IS - 1
ER -