Creative Giftedness: Beginnings, Developments, and Future Promises

Abstract

Although the concept of creative giftedness is still a comparatively new one, the benefits of applying research from this area are already making themselves known. Among these benefits are the tremendous advantages of including creativity in models of giftedness. In this chapter we first highlight how creative giftedness research has differentiated itself from intelligence. Next, we will describe four recent models of giftedness (the three-ring model of giftedness, the DMGT model, the WICS model, and the Feldman developmentalist position) that all involve a creative component. We will also cover recent advances in creativity research that have implications for creative giftedness such as the concept of “mini-c” (as opposed to Big-C and little-c). In conclusion, we argue the promise of dynamic assessment especially for creativity testing.