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Use the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking for identification of the creatively gifted and as a part of gifted matrices multicultural settings, and for special populations.  Before you invest the time and money to train a new employee, test your applicants for skills like:

• internal visualization
• storytelling articulateness
• extending or breaking boundaries
• movement or action
• humo

This test provides the answers you need to make informed hiring and promotion decisions.

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The highly reliable Torrance® Tests of Creative Thinking are the most widely used tests of their kind since testing only requires the examinee to reflect upon their life experiences. These tests invite examinees to draw and give a title to their drawings (pictures) or to write questions, reasons, consequences and different uses for objects (words). These instruments have been used for identification of the creatively gifted and as a part of gifted matrices in states and districts in the USA, especially in multicultural settings, and for special populations around the world. Published in two equivalent forms, Forms A and B, the Figural and Verbal TTCT can be used for pre- and post-testing.

Figural TTCT®: Thinking Creatively with Pictures

The Figural TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Pictures is appropriate at all levels, kindergarten through adult. It uses three picture-based exercises to assess five mental characteristics:

• fluency
• resistance to premature closure
• elaboration
• abstractness of titles
• originality

The Figural TTCT can be scored locally. Streamlined scoring provides standardized scores for the mental characteristics listed above as well as for the following creative strengths:

• emotional expressiveness
• internal visualization
• storytelling articulateness
• extending or breaking boundaries
• movement or action
• humor
• expressiveness of titles
• richness of imagery
• synthesis of incomplete figures
• colorfulness of imagery
• synthesis of lines or circles
• fantasy
• unusual visualization

With Figural TTCT Streamlined Scoring two different norm types are available: grade-related norms and age-related norms. Grade-related norms use one set of norms for each of the grades for which the test is appropriate, including the adult level. Age-related norms are based on the typical age for each of the grades in which the Figural TTCT may be used.

The Figural TTCT is also available in Spanish.

Required for scoring, the Figural TTCT Norms-Technical Manual includes national norm tables with standard scores and national percentiles by grade and age for each score area. The tables also show national percentiles for average standard scores, as well as a creativity index developed from the five standardized scores and thirteen creative strengths. A Streamlined Scoring Guide is also required.

Level: Kindergarten–Adult
Working Time: 30 minutes

Verbal TTCT®: Thinking Creatively with Words

Appropriate for first graders through adults, the Verbal TTCT: Thinking Creatively with Words uses six word-based exercises to assess three mental characteristics:

• fluency
• flexibility
• originality

These exercises provide opportunities to ask questions, to improve products, and to “just suppose.”

The Verbal TTCT can be scored locally. To score the test locally, the Manual for Scoring and Interpreting Results provides an easy-to-use scoring method. The Verbal TTCT uses one set of grade-related norms for each of the grades which is age appropriate, including the adult level. Age-related norms are based on the typical age for each of the grades in which the Verbal TTCT may be used. They range from age six to eighteen years and beyond.

Required for scoring, the Verbal Norms-Technical Manual includes national norm tables with standard scores and national percentiles by grade and age for each score area. Both manuals are required for scoring.

Level: Grade 1–Adult
Working Time: 45 minutes