Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale  (K-DOCS)

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Instrument Overview

This instrument is a 50-item self-reported questionnaire. The items fall under the following 5 domains: Self/Everyday Creativity, Scholarly, Creativity, Performance Creativity (encompassing writing and music), Mechanical/Scientific Creativity, and Artistic Creativity. Participants rated themselves on a 5-point Likert scale, with 1 being much less creative and 5 being much more creative. Subscore(s): Creativity 

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Organization

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Responsible Decision Making
Languages
English,
Chinese,
Croatian,
Indonesian,
Malay,
Turkish
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
50 question items
Administration
Paper

Access and Use

Contact

James C. Kaufman
james.kaufman@uconn.edu

860 486 4685

Open Access
Yes
Setting
Classroom

Psychometrics (additional guidance)

Psychometric References

Awofala, A. O., & Fatade, A. O. (2015). Validation of the domains of creativity scale for Nigerian preservice science, technology, and mathematics teachers. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 13(1), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.14204/ejrep.35.14057

Kaufman, J. C. (2012). Counting the muses: Development of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6(4), 298. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029751

McKay, A. S., Karwowski, M., & Kaufman, J. C. (2017). Measuring the muses: Validating the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(2), 216. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000074