CREATIVITY QUOTIENT APP: TECHNICAL MANUAL 2025

This Technical Manual covers the main aspects of the Creativity Quotient (CQ) App and its theoretical background. The CQ App is the first mobile application worldwide designed to assess creative thinking skills, namely fluency, flexibility, and originality, using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques such as Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The CQ mobile App includes two creative thinking tests from the Wallach and Kogan Battery: (a) the Uses test, which is a verbal test, and (b) a novel Figural test that does not require participants to draw/any drawing skills (i.e., Line Meaning and Pattern Meaning).The first part of this Technical Manual offers background about the Wallach and Kogan Battery, followed by the advantages of the two creative thinking tests used in the CQ mobile App (i.e., the Uses and the Figural tests), as well as the benefits of the new technology that the CQ mobile App offer for educators and researchers. The second part of the Manual summarizes the validity and reliability of the Uses and the Figural tests in the original works conducted by Runco and colleagues since the 1980s, followed by a series of studies conducted in different GCC countries, which show how these tests are valid and reliable to be used with K-12 as well as adult participants. The third part of this Manual discusses the scoring method used to assess fluency, flexibility, and originality in the CQ mobile App and how raw scores are converted into national percentiles, making the results' interpretations easy and reliable.