THE RELATION OF EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING TO RESEARCH PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Attempts were made to relate the performance of industrial personnel on tests of reasoning (R) and creative thinking (CT) with supervisor's ratings obtained prior to the tests. Ratings of R and CT factors were too high relative to the reliabilities to serve as unique indicators of the factors. Therefore, validation of the factor measures against the ratings as criteria was impossible. Rankings of the subjects for creativity suggested some correlation with two of the R and two of the CT tests.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1953
Accession Number
AD0019637

Entities

People

  • Gordon Taaffe

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Chemistry
  • Comprehension
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Industrial Personnel
  • Materials
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Reliability
  • Resilience
  • Sensitivity
  • Supervisors
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thinking
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Medical Imaging.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.