Evaluation and the Creative Potential in Music
The problem of finding validation criteria for psychological tests that attempt to measure creative potential (Khatena, 1969a) is a complex one vaylor and Barron, 1963) and has been the occassion of some major criticisms of creativity tests (Mc Nemar, 1964). Attempts to use achievement measures as criteria have led either to correlation indices in opposition to creativity measures (Thurstone, 1953) or moderate correlation indices (Torrance, 1966). It may be that different frames of reference are used in the evaluation operations relative to these two kinds of measures. Evaluation of achievement applies itself to a perceptual frame of reference of recognized merit of past masters whereas evaluation of creative talent inclusive of the former applies itself to a frame of reference rooted to flexibility, novelty, sensitivity and the like. It is no wonder then that we do obtain negative or low correlations between the two kinds of measures.