Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
375615 Thinking Skills and Creativity 2012 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

The Remote Associates Test (RAT) developed by Mednick and Mednick (1967) is known as a valid measure of creative convergent thinking. We developed a 30-item version of the RAT in Dutch with high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.85) and applied both Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory (IRT) to provide measures of item difficulty and discriminability, construct validity, and reliability. IRT was further used to construct a shorter version of the RAT, which comprises of 22 items but still shows good reliability and validity—as revealed by its relation to Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices test, another insight-problem test, and Guilford's Alternative Uses Test.

► Development of Dutch version of Mednick's (1967) Remote Associates Test (RAT) using classical test theory and item response theory. ► 30-item and 22-item version with excellent psychometric characteristics. ► Demonstration of strong relation between RAT, intelligence, and problem insight; separable from divergent thinking.

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