Who framed the 'Test of Creative Thinking' to identify creativity?

Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT)

1. The TTCT (Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking) assess how creatively a child’s mind works and are often given to children to determine advanced placement or as part of an entrance examination.
2. They are very different from the intelligence and reasoning tests a child may already have taken.
3. Instead of traditionally taught subjects such as reading or math, these tests assess creativity.
4. Children are scored on several aspects, including creative titles for pictures, expressions, imagery, and humor.

Important Points

The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is designed to identify and evaluate creative potential using two parts – a Verbal test and a Figural test. 

 1. Verbal test:

• ​​The Verbal test contains seven subtests – Asking, Guessing Causes, Guessing Consequences, Product Improvement, Unusual Uses, Unusual Questions, and Just Suppose.
• Subtests are scored based on fluency, flexibility, and originality (with a score on elaboration as optional), and these scores are accumulated across all subtests.
• The totals may be converted to standard T scores if normative reference is desired.

 2. Figural test:

• The Figural test has three subsets – Picture Construction (from a marked cue), Picture Completion (again with cues), and Parallel Lines.
• The first of these subtests are scored on originality and elaboration while the remainder is scored on fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
• Totals are then accumulated across subtests to provide overall scores for Figural fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.
• These scores, as in the Verbal test, can be converted to a standard T score.

Therefore, from the above explanation, it could be concluded that Torrance framed the 'Test of Creative Thinking' to identify creativity.