The purpose of this study were to develop a rating scale for screening preschoolers? creative characteristics and to examine the validity and reliability of this scale. The subjects were 85 4-5 year olds, their mothers, and teachers in Seoul. The prel...
The purpose of this study were to develop a rating scale for screening preschoolers? creative characteristics and to examine the validity and reliability of this scale. The subjects were 85 4-5 year olds, their mothers, and teachers in Seoul. The preliminary scale of ?the Rating Scale for Creative Characteristics of Preschoolers(RSCCP)? was developed as a 47-item 5-point rating scale and consisted of 5 factors. 5 factors were ?uniqueness-curiosity?, ?openness-humor?, ?sensitivity-many interest?, ?imagination-playfulness?, and ?independence- perseverance?. The inter-correlations among the 5 factors ranged from .31-.71. For the criterion validity, Wallach & Kogan?s Creativity Test(Foster, 1971) and children?s drawing were used, and for the convergence validity, the scores rated by mothers and the scores rated by teachers were compared. Test-retest reliability was .69 and Cronbach?s a ranged from .76-.90. There found no significant correlations between the RSCCP scale and the 2 criterion tests, and the paired t-test for the total scores of the scale rated by the mothers and the teachers showed no differences.주제어(Key Words): 창의성(creativity), 유아(preschooler), 창의적 행동특성(creative characteristics), 창의적 행동특성검사(the rating scale for creative characteristics)