Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Indicators and Measures of Creative Competency

One of the core competencies required for future global leaders and citizens includes creativity. Despite its great importance, however, it is not easy nor simple to scientifically measure creativity. Moreover, the very term, creativity, has now being used in many different fields with somewhat different meanings such as in business administration, economics, science and technology, arts, and so on beyond the fields of psychology and education, which have traditionally dealt with the understanding of the concept.

The present study reviewed the various concepts of creativity currently existing in different fields and molded a new term, 'creative competency' from an interdisciplinary perspective as well as with a multidimensional approach. And it attempted to define the concept of creative competency and also to develop its indicators and measures in accordance with the interdisciplinary and multidimensional definition. A series of pilot studies and a main study were conducted to analyze and improve the validity and reliability of the measures.