Should Children's Creativity Assessment Focus on Process or Product?—An Empirical Study Based on the Ball-Jar Task
With the continuous development of innovation-driven strategy in China,the cultivation of creative talents has gradually become the focus of Chinese researchers.Since childhood is one of the critical periods of individual creativity development,it is necessary for researchers to explore more sensitive assessment tasks and indicators of children's creativity.In this study,60 children aged between 5-6 years were involved in the exploration of the applicability of the Ball-Jar task among Chinese children,while comparing the sensitivity of two types of indicators(i.e.the process-focused indicator and the product-focused indicator)and two kinds of tasks(i.e.the Alternative Use Task and the Ball-Jar task),in assessing children's creativity.The results showed that the functional operation and operation chains could significantly and positively predict the number of successes on the Ball-Jar task.There was both a significant positive correlation between the functional operation and the fluency and uniqueness of the Alternative Use Task,as well as the uniqueness of divergent behavior in the Ball-Jar task and the fluency and uniqueness of the Alternative Use Task.There was also a significant positive correlation between the operation chains and the fluency the Alternative Use Task.Thus,compared to the product-focused indicator,the process-focused indicator was more sensitive in assessing children's creativity.In measuring children's creativity,more attention should be paid to the process-focused task,such as the Ball-Jar task.
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