Comparison of two creativity style measures.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between two measures of creativity style for a sample of beginning teachers. 116 student teachers enrolled in an undergraduate teacher-education program in a medium-sized, metropolitan university completed the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory and Basadur Creative Problem Solving Profile measures. A preference for an Innovator style (higher scores on Kirton's inventory) was correlated with the Generator profile on the Basadur profile (r=.36, p<.01). The KAI Efficiency scores, suggesting a preference for broad, global ideas as opposed to narrow, specific ones, was correlated with the Basadur Conceptualizer scores (r=.26, p<.01). Implications are discussed for teachers who must adapt to newer instructional and assessment methods designed to foster students' higher-level thinking skills.
Houtz
John C
JC
Graduate School of Education, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023, USA.
Selby
Edwin
E
Esquivel
Giselle B
GB
Okoye
Ruth A
RA
Peters
Kristen M
KM
Treffinger
Donald J
DJ
D000328:Adult; D003210:Concept Formation; D003405:Creativity; D004517:Education, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching