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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Main Authors: Prof. Dr. Sabah Husain AL-Ojyli, Salih Y Mutahar
Format: Article
Language:Arabic
Published: University of Science and Technology, Yemen 2017-08-01
Series:المجلة الدولية لتطوير التفوق
Online Access:https://ust.edu/ojs/index.php/AJTD/article/view/1198
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spelling doaj-8ccf2770031d4123bbdf7640bebe30fc2020-11-25T02:49:56ZaraUniversity of Science and Technology, Yemen المجلة الدولية لتطوير التفوق2415-45632522-38362017-08-01825421198Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of YemenProf. Dr. Sabah Husain AL-OjyliSalih Y MutaharThis 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.https://ust.edu/ojs/index.php/AJTD/article/view/1198
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Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
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Salih Y Mutahar
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title Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
title_short Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
title_full Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
title_fullStr Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
title_full_unstemmed Availability of the Psychometric Properties of Holmes’ Test of Creative Personality: A Field Study on Secondary School Students in Sana’a- Republic of Yemen
title_sort availability of the psychometric properties of holmes’ test of creative personality: a field study on secondary school students in sana’a- republic of yemen
publisher University of Science and Technology, Yemen
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description 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.
url https://ust.edu/ojs/index.php/AJTD/article/view/1198
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