Self-Report for Creative Self-Efficacy

Creative self-efficacy. Three items were used to
assess students’ creative self-efficacy (α = .86). The
items were based on previous work done in the area of
creative self-efficacy (as presented by Tierney &
Farmer, 2002), definitions of creativity (Plucker,
Beghetto, & Dow, 2004), and the concept of self-efficacy
(Bandura, 1997). Specifically, items were intended
to measure students’ beliefs about their ability
to generate novel and useful ideas and whether they
viewed themselves as having a good imagination. The
three items were (a) “I am good at coming up with new
ideas,” (b) “I have a lot of good ideas,” and (c) “I have a
good imagination.”