TOOLS FOR TESTİNG THE LEVEL OF CREATİVİTY

Creativity is one of the most important requirements of today's society, which requires a certain degree of flexibility and originality from its employees. School should prepare children not only for further studies, but also for life in today's society. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and constantly develop the level of creativity of children in primary schools (Honzíková, 2015). The aim of this article is not to present the results of research on creative abilities, but to show test tools for determining the level of creative abilities. Different test instruments are used to determine children's and adults' creative abilities, the authors present in the article Torranco's Figural Test of Creative Thinking (Torrance, 1966), Urban's Test of Creative Thinking (Urban, 2004) and Pattern Assembly Test (Novotný, 2012). The examples of test aids given in the article are supplemented by examples of children's works. The full results of the individual researches are published in the publications at the given links. Nowadays, it is also possible to use a virtual form of testing to determine the level of creative abilities, which can be more attractive for respondents. In our article, there is an example of testing creative abilities using 3D modeling in the SketchUp program (Fadrhonc, 2021). The article can help novice researchers to choose the right test for determining the level of creative abilities of respondents.