What does creativity look like in preschool? A multi-method examination of unity and diversity in preschoolers’ creativity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Creativity is a multifaceted construct that manifests itself in a variety of modalities. While previous research suggests that creativity is a diversified skill in school-aged children and adults, little is known about preschoolers’ creativity. This study aims to identify the structure of creativity in a sample of preschoolers ( N = 83, M age 4.40 years). We examined associations between three performance-based creativity measures and one parent-report measure of creativity. Findings from bivariate analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed substantive associations within and non-substantive associations between creativity tasks and parent-report items. Results provide preliminary evidence of diversity in performance-based assessments and unity in parent-report measures of preschool creativity. Results also showed inconsistent associations between performance-based and parent-report measures of creativity in preschool, suggesting measures are capturing different facets of preschoolers' creativity. These results shed light on the multidimensional structure of creativity, the validity of behavioural measures of creativity, and contribute to the conceptualization and assessment of creativity in early childhood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".