The Development of Tools to Measure Learner Creativity in the Lower Secondary School Level

Abstract

Creativity is the process of creating something new and different from the original. It is something that happens within a person. The objectives of the present study were: 1. To examine the behavioral indicators to measure the creativity of lower secondary school students; 2. To design and develop a creativity test for lower secondary school students; 3. To examine the quality of the creativity test for lower secondary school students, using design research. Data analysis employed the SPSS (version 28.0.1) and EduG (version 6.1) ready-made programs. The findings revealed that, regarding the quality of the creativity test for lower secondary school students, the Intra-Class Correlation (ICC) had a value between 0.37 and 0.99 (G-Coefficient). The examination of the components' variances to see how they impacted the reference summary coefficients (G-Coefficient) indicated that when the rater scored every test item of every test taker, or employed the scoring format (p x i x r), the maximum value of the interaction scores between the test taker and the test ( pi) was 0.59, accounted for 47.20% of the overall variance. When the rater scored some items of every test taker, or using the scoring format [(p x ( i : r )], variation was discovered in the test taker’s interaction scores and the test items that each rater scored ( pi : r), having the maximum value of 0.59, which accounted for 47.90 percent of the overall variance. To use the inference theory of measurement findings reliability (G-theory) to compare the inference coefficients. It was discovered that during grading the creative exam, the examiner selected a scoring scheme in which the examiner reviewed each test taker's answers to every question (p x i x r). Its decision-making generalizability coefficients for relative () is 0.74, while its generalizability coefficients for absolute () is 0.62. And every examinee's questions are examined by the examiner using a scoring format [(p x (i : r )] Its decision-making generalizability coefficients for relative () is 0.70, while its generalizability coefficients for absolute () is 0.66. The group-based creativity grading criteria ought to be used in the implementation.