Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
This study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of Holmes’ Test of creative personality among secondary school students in Sana’a-Yemen. A cluster sample of (514) male and female students was drawn. After applying the test on the sample the following results were reached: Four types o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Arabic |
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University of Science and Technology, Yemen
2017-08-01
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| Series: | المجلة الدولية لتطوير التفوق |
| Online Access: | https://ust.edu/ojs/index.php/AJTD/article/view/1198 |
| Summary: | This study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of Holmes’ Test of creative personality among secondary school students in Sana’a-Yemen. A cluster sample of (514) male and female students was drawn. After applying the test on the sample the following results were reached:
Four types of test validity were applied. A jury validity which resulted in deleting (12) items of the test. A concurrent validity of the test with teacher ratings ranged between (0.61) and (0.64) and all were significant at . A construct validity was applied via the correlations between items and the total scores [ranged between 0.18 and (0.51); all were significant at ]. A discriminative validity was also applied; the difference between upper and lower group means was significant at .
Three types of test reliability were drawn; test-retest r= (0.88), split-half r= (0.93), Cronbach-alpha r= (0.84).
A significant difference in mean scores was found at between males and females in favor of females.
Based on these results, the researchers recommended using Holmes’ test as a structured instrument to explore creative personality among secondary school students in Sana’a.
Keywords: Psychometric properties, Holmes’ test, Creative personality. |
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| ISSN: | 2415-4563 2522-3836 |