4.1.2. Creative skills: Cartoons; Oral Stories; Written
Stories; STATCreative
The creative performance measures provide modest
reliability and zero-order prediction of college GPA.
Research in creativity has repeatedly demonstrated the
multidimensional characteristic of this construct (see,
for example, Sternberg, 1999b), and our analyses
suggest that our measures of creativity show similar
multidimensionality. Our measures do show some
common variation with verbal skills; however, there is
evidence to suggest that reliable variation in the Oral
Stories is being determined by skills distinct from the
traditional academic abilities assessed by the SAT-V.
When incremental prediction is considered, both theOral Stories task and the STATCreative remain significant
predictors of academic performance (college GPA)
beyond SAT.