ACT WorkKeys Essential Skills: Creativity

Issued by ACT, Inc.

ACT WorkKeys Essential Skills measures skills related to workplace success. Earners of the Creativity badge demonstrate creative thinking and innovation by offering creative ideas and developing new tools, solutions, or procedures to solve problems. Earners demonstrate open-mindedness and intellectual curiosity to discover answers to questions or solve problems.

Type Validation
Level Foundational

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

The earner completed an online, comprehensive assessment that combines both Likert-based and situational judgment items into one score. This design is less susceptible to biases and is more difficult to fake.
To earn the badge, an earner must score at or above the 84th percentile. The assessment is norm referenced, which means that the earner is compared to others who have taken the assessment. So, if 100 people were to take the assessment, the earner would do as well as or better than 84 out of the 100 people.

Standards

Big 5 Framework

ACT used the Big 5 framework to develop WorkKeys Essential Skills. This framework has been supported through multiple decades of research. Previous meta-analytic findings demonstrate the potential added utility organizations can expect from the use of assessments that capture the factors of the Big 5 framework.