Naslov
Effects of the educationists' implicit theories of creativity on its evaluation by means of the Idiosyncratic Creativity Contents Constellations
(Učinci implicitnih teorija edukatora o kreativnosti na njenu evaluaciju pomoću Idiosinkratskih Konstelacija Sadržaja Kreativnosti)

Autori
Rački, Željko

Izvornik
Suvremena psihologija (1331-9264) 18 (2015), 2; 145-158

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
creativity in children ; implicit theories ; domain specificity ; art bias
(kreativnost u djece ; implicitne teorije ; specifičnost za domenu ; pristranost prema umjetnosti)

Sažetak
Behaviorally operationalized creativity in children and its validity in the educational psychologists', students', and teachers' ratings, while taking into account the effects of their implicit theories of creativity, was assessed in this study. The initial pool of behaviors displayed by children was rated by nine educational psychologists on prototypicality for creativity. The psychology students rated whether behaviors were representative of artistic, scientific, or everyday creativity. Based on the rated creativity, the behaviors were divided into quintiles and arranged into 64 behavior groups. Three groups of students of teacher studies (n = 147) rated all the behavior groups on creativity, from low to high. The instructions given to the raters differed ; the first student group rated the behavior groups labeled as Children, the second student group rated the behavior groups labeled as Girls, and the third group as Boys. The primary school teachers (n = 18) rated the same behavior groups labeled as Pupils. The results displayed the convergence of the educational psychologists', the teachers', and the students' ratings of the creativity of behavior groups (r ≥. 9), with more weight in implicit theories of creativity given to the arts. The research findings are discussed regarding the ecological validity of the creativity operationalization and measurement as a set of behaviors of predefined characteristics in the educational setting.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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