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On Creativity: Towards an Understanding of Creativity and its Measurements
The European Council agreed in declaring 2009 the year of creativity and innovation. The Communication of March 2008 (European Commission, 2008, 2) puts it simply: 'Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social and economic reasons'. This paper aims at constructing a preliminary understanding of research on creativity and the possibilities of constructing a 'creativity composite indicator' using large scale surveys and other existing statistical tools. The paper reviews some perspectives on creativity. Despite being a vague entity, difficult to define, there is certain consensus on some of the creativity characteristics. It seems clear that it is related to the appearance of something new and with some short of value. There is also certain agreement that everybody can be creative to some extent. A second part of the paper presents some existing measures of creativity. They are divided into psychological measures related to divergent thinking and personality traits and a ¿sector¿ approach to creativity. While the psychological approach is based in the more or less traditional psychometric models interested in individual level characteristics, the ¿sector¿ approach comes from a different set of disciplines more interested in creative aspects of society. The paper concludes with some considerations on the use of existing large scale survey data, such as PISA, to construct a creativity index. It also indicates the necessary steps if it would be necessary to create a large scale assessment on young people¿s creativity. ; JRC.G.9-Econometrics and statistical support to antifraud
On Creativity: Towards an Understanding of Creativity and its Measurements
The European Council agreed in declaring 2009 the year of creativity and innovation. The Communication of March 2008 (European Commission, 2008, 2) puts it simply: 'Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social and economic reasons'. This paper aims at constructing a preliminary understanding of research on creativity and the possibilities of constructing a 'creativity composite indicator' using large scale surveys and other existing statistical tools. The paper reviews some perspectives on creativity. Despite being a vague entity, difficult to define, there is certain consensus on some of the creativity characteristics. It seems clear that it is related to the appearance of something new and with some short of value. There is also certain agreement that everybody can be creative to some extent. A second part of the paper presents some existing measures of creativity. They are divided into psychological measures related to divergent thinking and personality traits and a ¿sector¿ approach to creativity. While the psychological approach is based in the more or less traditional psychometric models interested in individual level characteristics, the ¿sector¿ approach comes from a different set of disciplines more interested in creative aspects of society. The paper concludes with some considerations on the use of existing large scale survey data, such as PISA, to construct a creativity index. It also indicates the necessary steps if it would be necessary to create a large scale assessment on young people¿s creativity. ; JRC.G.9-Econometrics and statistical support to antifraud
On Creativity: Towards an Understanding of Creativity and its Measurements
VILLALBA GARCIA Ernesto (author)
2008-11-06
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
Perceptions towards creativity and creativity related concepts by metaphor analysis
| BASE | 2019
Perceptions towards creativity and creativity related concepts by metaphor analysis
| BASE | 2020