The present study examines effort in narrative creative writing (operationalized as time-on-task) using a new assessment approach, the storyboard task. Participants (N = 125) completed alternate forms of the storyboard task in two sessions five weeks apart. They also completed measures of divergent thinking and self-reported ideational behavior. Time-on-task, story length, and rated creativity scores were obtained for the participants’ stories. The storyboard task demonstrated good alternate form reliability and convergent validity with the criterion measures. Although time-on-task was strongly, positively associated with creativity scores, this relationship was confounded by the contribution of story length. Relationships amongst these variables were similar when creativity was rated by novice raters using a rubric or experienced raters using the consensual assessment technique. Additionally, story length and time-on-task were moderately correlated with the external criterion measures of creativity. Thus, the strong associations between rated creativity, story length, and time in creative writing raise important issues and avenues for future research, and results for the storyboard task suggest that it is a valuable assessment of narrative creative writing.

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用故事板任务衡量创意写作：努力和故事长度的作用

本研究使用一种新的评估方法，即故事板任务，检查了叙事创意写作（作为任务时间操作）的努力。参与者 ( N = 125) 在相隔五周的两个会话中完成了故事板任务的替代形式。他们还完成了发散思维和自我报告的观念行为的测量。获得了参与者故事的任务时间、故事长度和创造性评分。故事板任务通过标准措施证明了良好的替代形式可靠性和收敛效度。尽管完成任务的时间与创造力得分呈强正相关，但这种关系被故事长度的贡献所混淆。当创造力由使用量规的新手评估者或使用共识评估技术的经验丰富的评估者评估时，这些变量之间的关系是相似的。此外，故事长度和完成任务的时间与创造力的外部标准测量值适度相关。因此，