Assessment of PLAY creativity in children from grades 4, 5, and 6
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2019-08-23
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Klos, Serena
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Creativity and innovation are valued in society, and can be exhibited in various domains like mathematics, music, engineering, visual arts, etcetera. With a dramatic decline in physical activity in culture, one avenue of interest is creativity in the movement domain. Very few assessment tools have been designed to assess movement creativity and each tool has limitations. This study examined a new tool (PLAY creativity) which to address these limitation, and examined six features of creativity; fluency, originality, imagination, imitation, elaboration, and flow using 11 tasks. A total of 198 children from grade 4 to 6 participated. All six features revealed moderate to large ranges, with right and left skewed non-normal distributions. Consistent with a reflective model of the latent variable (creativity) the features had very good internal consistency (0.778), and all exhibited gradients (p<0.01) reflective to the overall creativity score. As expected, fluency revealed the lowest correlations to other features and overall score (r=0.379). Sex differences in fluency were observed (p<0.05). Encouragingly, the overall creativity scores revealed normal distributions with excellent standardized ranges. This study provides additional support for PLAY creativity as a suitable measurement tool, which has addressed many of the limitations of previous assessments.
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Movement creativity, Motor creativity, PLAY