Test Construction for Assessment of Teacher's Attitudes Toward Creativity

The main purpose of this project was to construct a test that would in effect show the positive and negative attitudes of teachers toward creativity. Construction of the test was implemented based on the equal-appearing interval method of Thurstone and Chave. First, 150 sentences were collected from various sources binding different attitudes concerning creativity. The number of sentences was reduced to 90 via a preliminary test. Next, 111 judges sorted the sentences on a seven-point scale ranging from unfavorable to neutral and favorable.Then the scale values as well as the ambiguity values of sentences based on sorting of the judges were computed. 30 sentences with the least amount of ambiguity values and serving the purpose of the study were selected so as to produce a spread along the scale continuum. Scale values and ambigui- ty values are presented for the 30 selected sentences. Usage of similar tests for the assessment of attitudes toward creativity can increase this test’s functionality.