Performance assessments of creativity:Do they have long‐term stability?

Assessment by experts of the creativity of products (such as poems and collages) has recently become an important technique for measuring creativity. While inter‐rater reliabilities have been high, there have been no studies of the long‐term stability of measures of creativity based on the assessment of such products. Two studies are reported that measure the long‐term stability of performance assessments involving story‐writing and poetry‐writing (fourth‐ and fifth‐grade students) and story‐telling (second‐grade students). The long‐term stability of these assessments compares favorably with stability figures for other creativity tests.