Descripción

The importance of fostering creative thinking in contemporary education implies having adequate and valid measurement instruments to identify these skills and guide educational efforts more accurately. The present study aimed to validate the Test of Creative Imagination for Adolescents in the Colombian population. It was a quantitative, psychometric, descriptive and cross-sectional study. The test was administered to 670 high school students with a mean age of M 14.7 (SD 1.6), distributed between 12 and 18 years old. The results indicated that the predictive validity of the test was higher in the Colombian sample; however, the creativity scores obtained by the Colombian students were significantly lower than those of the reference population. The greatest difference was found in narrative creativity, with graphic creativity being the most similar to the original sample. Among the variables that make up the narrative creativity factor, the one most affected was narrative flexibility. The importance of educational and cultural factors in the development of the creative potential of young Colombians is discussed.