DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY SCALE

Abstract

The study developed and standardised a scale for measuring the Postgraduate Students' Creativity Scale (PSCS). This study aimed to develop, validate and standardise a creativity scale for postgraduate students. The study employed an instrumentation design in which a four-point scale was developed and standardised. An initial draft of a 56-item instrument was developed and standardised. After corrections, a 51-item instrument emerged and was administered to 500 postgraduate students. The data collected were subjected to factor analysis. The results from factor analysis showed that 30 items loaded well on five factors, with a minimum loading of 0.54. The 30 items were administered to 600 students to establish norms. The norm for the entire instrument was 63.65; the norms of male and female students were 36.10 and 40.01, respectively. Cronbach's alpha statistic was used to assess the reliability of the instrument, yielding an internal consistency of 0.82 for the 30 items. Hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics; the result shows that there is a significant difference between the norms of male and female students. The manual of the PSCS outlines the administration and scoring procedures of the scale, as well as its psychometric properties. The instrument PSCS is therefore recommended for assessing the creativity of postgraduate students.