Review of Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Figural Form A Scoring in Iran

Torrance creativity tests are widely and continuously used in educational settings and are among the most popular tests of divergent thinking. This study was conducted to determine the originality score for the answers of Figural Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking on Iranian students. For this purpose, this test was performed on 585 primary school students in Sabzevar. After excluding the sheets that did not meet the scoring requirements, 542 test sheets were analyzed. The answers of all students were collected in each picture, then the frequency and percentage of each answer were obtained. The originality score of each answer was calculated according to the Torrance method for scoring originality. For each answer in the image subtest, the originality score was considered from zero to five. In the subtest of completing the images, the range of originality scores from zero to two was determined. In the parallel lines subtest, the answers were scored from zero to three. Then, according to the type and frequency of the subjects' answers, a table related to each test item is compiled for the use of testers. Now, according to the results of this research, different types of answers of Iranian students can be scored more accurately in the figural form A of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking in terms of the degree of originality.