The measure of originality in CREA test responses

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"The aim was to study a new scoring procedure for the CREA Test, c omplementary to the traditional, that considers the originality of the productions. The new procedure and corresponding analyzes were defined for three groups (children, adolescents and adults) and for the three stimu- li of the CREA. The sample included 505 participants (188 children, 108 adolescents and 209 adults) living in Cordoba, Argentina. The new proce- dure included three categories of questions: very frequent , frequent and unique , each categories had different scoring. A descriptive analysis of typolo gies and a correlational analysis of the scores were performed according to the two procedures. Also, the paper presented a case study of people asking unique questions. The results showed very high consistency of measure- ments and correlations between two procedures for the three groups and the three stimuli. There were significant associations between the levels of creativity defined by both procedures. The unique questions represented between 1 and 4% of the total, stimulus A is the one that most promotes the formulation of unique questions. The authors proposed to use of the alternative system in groups that obtain low scores with the traditional sys- tem and when a differential analysis of the originality is required. Authors discussed theoretically relati ons between quantity and originality and pro- posed future lines of research."