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Creativity broadly refers to an ability or activity that produces something new and useful. Its assessment appears to become increasingly important because creativity has enduring effects throughout the individual’s lifespan (Mouchiroud & Lobart, 2001). However, attempts to devise a unitary measure of overall creativity have not been successful (Fishkin & Johnson, 1998). It is therefore preferable to adopt a systems approach to the assessment by using multiple measures to tap various dimensions of creativity (Fishkin & Johnson, 1998). Two prominent dimensions of creativity are verbal and figural (Cropley, 2000; Dacey & Lennon, 1998). Both can tap characteristics of creativity such as fluency and originality. For assessing figural creativity, the drawing task is particularly useful because of its basis on gestalt theory and application across cultures (Cropley, 2000). Gestalt theory maintains that creativity reflects the individual’s ability of reformulation, analogical thinking, and removing mental blocks that result in premature closure (Dacey & Lennon, 1998). As such, creativity involves skills enabling an individual to reconstruct a fuller picture. Creativity is a hot topic in Hong Kong nowadays. What does being creative mean actually? If you come up with a new and useful idea, we can say that you are creative!! But how can we measure it? We should think of a way to measure creativity because it’s having a bigger and bigger effect on our lives all the time. But we have still not succeeded in finding a good way. So instead of just using one method to measure creativity we should probably come up with several methods to measure different aspects of creativity. For example, let’s look at two aspects of creativity – drawing pictures and the verbal aspect. If we set up tests around these two aspects, we can measure all sorts of different creative abilities. The drawing test is a very useful test since it’s based on gestalt theory and it can be used all over the world. Gestalt theory gives us a better idea of what being creative means. For example, it means that you can improve things or ‘think out of the box’ or be very open-minded and curious about things, etc. In a nutshell, creative people are able to use skills to fill in the gaps.