ERIC Number: EJ1217127
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0300-4430
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The Test of Creative Imagination: Making the Test Suitable to the Age Group of 5-6 Years
Early Child Development and Care, v189 n8 p1219-1227 2019
Imagination is the ability of envisaging something that does not exist at the time being. Since 5-6-year-old children get through the pre-operational stage of Piaget's [2004. "Çocukta Zihinsel Gelisim" [Intellectual Development of Child] (2nd ed., H. Portakal, Trans.). Istanbul: Cem], they believe in empirical facts. Hence, Kujawski's Test of Creative Imagination (TCI) is not suitable to the children aged 6 years and younger. In this study, Kujawski's TCI was tried to be made suitable for the age group of 5-6 years. For this purpose, 204 children aged between 5 and 6 years attending the kindergartens, selected by using simple random sampling method in the city centre of Denizli Province, Turkey, were included in the study. At the end of the study, TCI was found to be a reliable and valid assessment instrument for children in the age group of 5-6 years. The 6-year-old children made more ideas and more detailed constructions than the 5-year-old children.
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Imagination, Preschool Children, Creativity, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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