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Validation of the Italian Remote Associate Test
Author(s) -
Salvi Carola,
Costantini Giulio,
Pace Adriana,
Palmiero Massimiliano
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/jocb.345
Subject(s) - anagrams , fluency , creativity , task (project management) , raven's progressive matrices , test (biology) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , flexibility (engineering) , measure (data warehouse) , psychology , artificial intelligence , anagram , range (aeronautics) , natural language processing , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , programming language , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , data mining , cognition , engineering , paleontology , systems engineering , aerospace engineering , neuroscience , biology
The scientific approach to the study of creative problem‐solving has shifted from using classic insight problems (e.g., the Nine‐dots problem), toward sets of problems that have more robust psychometric properties, such as the Remote Associate Test ( RAT ). Because it is homogeneous, compact, quickly solvable, and easy to score, the RAT has been used more frequently in recent creativity studies. We applied the Item Response Theory ( IRT ) to develop an Italian version of this task. The final 51‐item test was reliable (α = .89) and provided information over a wide range of ability levels, as revealed by the IRT analysis. The RAT correlated with five measures of creative performance: The Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices ( SPM ), three classic insight problems, a set of anagrams purposefully developed, the fluency and flexibility scores of the Alternative Uses Task ( AUT ), and the Creative Achievements Questionnaire ( CAQ ). The new measure provided is meant to encourage the study of creativity and problem‐solving in the Italian language.