The standard creativity test which is used in the assessment of creativity is the Torrance Test of Creativity, which was developed by psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance (October 8, 1915 – July 12, 2003) an American psychologist from Milledgeville, Georgia in 1966. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) test has had 50 years of research behind it to be considered useful and statistically…
Month: July 2010
The Creativity Crisis
Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed by professor E. Paul Torrance. Schwarzrock still vividly remembers the moment when a psychologist handed him a fire truck and asked,…