DEVELOPING A COMPUTER-BASED TTCT - PROMISES AND PROBLEMS

The purposes of the present study were to examine the equivalence of p aper-pencil and computer-based versions of the Torrance Tests of Creat ive Thinking (TTCT), Figural Forms A and B, and to investigate the pat terns of responses involved in the computer-based TTCT. The participan ts were 34 fifth- and sixth-grade students currently enrolled in two p ublic schools in southern Texas. The computer-based TTCT was developed to present all the features of the paper-pencil TTCT with the additio nal benefits offered by computer-based testing. Means, variances, test -retest reliability, and attitudinal differences were analyzed to inve stigate equivalence between the paper-pencil and computer-based TTCT. Response patterns involved in the figural tasks were explored based on data collected from the computer-based test (e.g., latency, tool usin g patterns, correction activities). The findings of the study indicate d that the results obtained from the computer-based TTCT were not equi valent with the paper-pencil version. However, additional information regarding response patterns obtained from the computer-based TTCT show ed clear indication of different response tendencies among different g roups of students and between the two alternate test forms (A and B).