A prognostic test for students in design

Abstract

The writers maintain that tests of creative ability in art should secure actual samples of the individual's work as expressions of that ability. A line-drawing test was constructed which called upon the subjects to draw simple lines to express various feelings and attitudes. A careful though somewhat elaborate method of scoring was devised. When applied to two groups of students in design, the test was found to be fairly reliable and very highly valid when the criterion of creative ability was based upon the teacher's ratings. It is concluded that the test, which requires only ten minutes to give, measures the creative ability of the students as well as the teacher can estimate it after a whole semester's acquaintance. It does not measure to any appreciable degree the ability that is measured by tests of general intelligence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)