Validating the creative self-efficacy student scale with a Taiwanese sample: An item response theory-based investigation. (March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hung, Su-Pin
• Is Part Of: Thinking skills and creativity. Volume 27(2018)
• Page Start: 190
• Page End: 203
• Publication Date: 2018-03
• Subjects: Creative self-efficacy -- Differential item functioning -- Item response theory -- Psychometric validation -- Rasch model; Thought and thinking -- Periodicals; Critical thinking -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Creative thinking -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Thinking -- Periodicals; Creativeness -- Periodicals; Teaching -- Periodicals; Pensée -- Étude et enseignement -- Périodiques; Créativité (Éducation) -- Étude et enseignement -- Périodiques; 370.15205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2018.02.006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1871-1871

Abstract

Highlights: A three-dimensional structure of CSE-student scale is supported and stable. The CSE-student scale is appropriate for junior high to undergraduates. The measurement is gender DIF free and the result show gender differences on CSE. Lower educational level is associated with a higher perceived CSE. The criterion-related validity supported the scale is related to creative performance. Abstract: The aim of this study was to provide multiple pieces of validation evidence to support the use of the Creative Self-Efficacy (CSE) Student Scale using item response theory. A total of 1416 Taiwanese students (759 university students, 235 high school students and 422 junior high school students) participated in the present study. An item response model was used to analyze the dimensionality and gender differential item functioning (DIF) of the CSE Student Scale. The consistency of the item difficulty hierarchy of the responses provided by university students and non-university students was compared. A latent regression analysis was conducted to assess the effects of gender and educational level on students' CSE scores. Additionally, the CSE Student Scale was related to two widely used creativity tests — the New Creative Thinking Test and the Daily Creative Life Experiences and Self-reported Creative Experience and Self-rated creative — to verify its criterion-related validity. The results supported the three-dimensional structure of the CSE Student Scale. The hierarchy of item difficulty was consistent across the different education levels, showing that the scale is appropriate for students from junior high school to university. The CSE scale provided gender DIF-free measurement. Female students' CSE scores tended to be lower than those of male students. Additionally, a lower education level was associated with a higher CSE. In turn, the results from the criterion-related validation supported use of the CSE scale, which was related to performance on a divergent verbal thinking test, daily creative experiences, self-reported creative experiences and self-rated creative.