Lecture 2: The assesment of innovation capabilities - Idea Generation

Question 1

Assessing Domain relevant Skills

Answer 1

= Grades and Certification
= References
= Achievements
= Skills and Knowledge

Question 2

Assessing intrinsic motivation

Answer 2

= Personality Attributes
-> Indicators: Need for achievement, difficulty preference, past behavior
-> Instruments: Psychological tests, interviews
= Personal Interests in the domain
-> Indicators: past activities, hobbies, electives
-> Instruments: Biographical interviews, questionnaires, references

Question 3

Assessing Creativity Relevant Skills

How?

Answer 3

1. Checklists
2. Interviews
3. Past achievements
4. Test methods of creativity-relevant skills

Question 4

Divergent Thinking Tests

Main Components of Divergent Thinking?

Answer 4

1. Fluency
   = The number of responses to a given stimulus
2. Organility
   = The uniqueness of responses to a given stimulus
3. Flexibility
   = The number and/or uniqueness of categories of responses to a given stimulus
4. Elaboration
   = The extension of ideas within a specific category of responses to a given stimulus

Question 5

Divergent Thinking Tests
Verbal tests?

Answer 5

= The Alternate/Unusual Uses Test

= The Remote Associates Test (RAT)
-> Underlying Idea: Creative thinking is based on forming mutually distant associative elements into new combinations
-> Examinees are presented with 3 words and are asked to come up with with a word that associates the other 3 together

Question 6

Divergent Thinking Tests
Figural tests

Answer 6

= The Picture Construction/Completion Test
-> Participants are asked to use a basic shape to expand on it to create a picture/finish an incomplete drawing

= The dot connection test
-> connect all the dots with 4 continuous straight lines

Question 7

Assessing Creativity Relevant Skills

Conclusion?

Answer 7

= There is no single best way to assess creativity-relevant skills
= A lot of uncertainty associated with assessment methods and many potential drawbacks

Question 8

Assessing Creativity Relevant Skills

Combination of assessment methods?

Answer 8

= Recommendable
-> Choice of methods to be combined based on their incremental validity