Abstract: The Creative Thinking Exercises for High School Students (CTE)were administered to 812 high school students, and the students' creativitywas evaluated by their teachers. The test scores and rating results werecompared with some relative factors. Results indicate that: 1. It is reliable and valid to use CTE for evaluating high schoolstudents' creativity. 2. The distributions of the high school students' creativity obtained inthis research were normal curves. 3. The high creative students showed some common personalitycharacteristics. 4. Students' creativity were moderately related to their academicachievement scores. 5. High school boys had significantly higher scores on flexibility thanthe girls, but not on the other aspects. 6. There were no differences between "the only-child" group and otherchildren in their creativity. 7. Among the students, creativity of the cadres were superior to theothers.

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