Development and validation of a creativity convergence competency test for university students

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The purpose of this study was to identify the concept and constructs of ‘Creativity Convergence Competency’ and to develop a reliable and valid tool for measuring it. For this purpose, two research questions were set: Firstly, what are the construct factors of the creativity convergence competency of university students? And secondly, what is the validity of the ‘Creativity Convergence Competency Test(CCCT)’? To answer the first question, 5 factors, namely: creative ability, creative personality, creative leadership, convergent thinking, and convergent value creation were extracted from a literature review, and the content validity of the factors was identified by specialists. Based on the concept and constituent factors identified, a preliminary creativity convergence competency test of 60 items was developed and 997 university students were preliminarily tested. Fifty nine items were selected through item analysis after the preliminary test and they were identified by exploratory factor analysis(EFA). The 5 factors of creative ability, creative personality, creative leadership, convergent thinking, and convergent value creation were identified. Finally, the CCCT, which consisted of 59 items, was given to 1,577 university students. The results were used for goodness of model fit and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The results of this study verified that the parallel model consisting of 5 factors was more suitable for explaining creativity convergence competency than the hierarchical model. In addition, CCCT was identified to be a valid test with construct validity and cross validity. In conclusion, this study developed a reliable and valid CCCT with 59 questions to measure the creativity convergence competency of university students. The verified factors of this test were creative ability, creative personality, creative leadership, convergent thinking, and convergent value creation. It is expected that the test for measuring creativity convergence competency of university students developed through this study will be useful for the selection of the curricula of university students and the development of teaching-learning materials.

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