The reliability and validity studies indicated the ability of the YCREATIVE-CRITICALS scores to represent the
styles of creative thinking and critical thinking of its respondent. Although the purpose of establishing this
instrument was mainly for assessing the Malaysian students’ thinking styles, the instrument could be used as an
alternative measure to other thinking tests, in understand human behaviours from different perspectives. Since
human thinking is a universal behaviour, the usage of the test may not limited only to the Malaysian secondary
school students, however, reliability measures should be carried out before it could be used generally.
Since the test is limited to the age of sixteen and above, there is a need to develop two alternative forms of the
YCREATIVE-CRITICALS test, for secondary lower and primary school students