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Assessment of children’s creative potential in visual and literary domains within the Croatian socio-cultural context

Several measures of creativity employ different figural-visual-graphic or verbal-literary tasks, usually within the framework of divergent thinking that Guilford defined as the ability to envision multiple solutions to a problem. Convergent thinking was conceptualised as the tendency to narrow all options to a single solution, and this process is less frequently included in different measures of creativity. In the Guilford Test of Creative Thinking, nine subtests require verbal responses, and four make use of figural content. In Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, participants draw figures or write questions, possible consequences and different uses for objects. Seldomly, measures provide a balanced approach to the assessment of exploratory-divergent and integrative- convergent thinking across figural-graphic and verbal-literary domains. The main goal of this work is to present an effort to adapt and standardise the measure that takes such a balanced approach with somewhat different operationalisations of classical divergent- convergent thinking constructs. EPoC test of potential creativity in the graphic and verbal domain of creative expression is in the process of adaptation for use with Croatian preschool and elementary school children. The results were obtained from 450 students (4-14 years ; 53.33% female) mainly from Croatian schools in Istria and Primorsko-goranska county. Because the normative sample has not been acquired yet, the descriptive statistics on raw scores and standardised T-scores are presented as indicators of exploratory-divergent thinking, integrative-convergent thinking, graphic, verbal and overall creativity. The partializing effect of the participants’ age on the relationship between such coefficients is presented, and some evidence of replicability of the factor structure for this measure of potential creativity is provided.

Potential creativity ; EPoC ; Children ; Figural-Graphic Domain ; Literary-Verbal Domain ; Creative Potential

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