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Scoring Alternate Uses Tests Let’s imagine that a student named Freddy Valentine came up with these alternate uses for a trash can:

1. hold dirty clothes 2. use it as a helmet in a water balloon fight 3. put water in it for a bird bath 4. foot stool 5. hold dog food

Let’s score it for him! Fluency means how many ideas did he have. His Fluency number is 5. Flexibility means how many categories did he have. Category #1: Let’s see—“hold dirty clothes” is a container. How many other containers does he have? “Hold dog food” is another container. What about the bird bath? That’s kind of a container, but birds would also be landing on it, so— Category #2: bird bath Category #3: helmet Category #4: foot stool So his Flexibility number is 4. Elaboration means how much detail did he go into. We’ll say that something has good elaboration if it has four or more words. So Freddy’s Elaboration number is 2. For Originality, you need to compare. Did he have something on his list that no one else in your class came up with? What do you think his Originality number was?