The CEAA instrument consists of 27 items related to the following abilities: memory, attention, language, psychosocial, reasoning & problem solving, emotion and culture. While clients are participating in a creative activity program, their behavior is recorded and rated by an observer trained on the CEAA.
The CEAA has good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = .89), as well as good inter-rater reliability (Cronbach’s Kappa = .83) (Gottlieb-Tanaka, Lee and Graf, 2008, and in preparation).
This package includes 25 copies of the CEAA rating form (each form may be used for making observations on 4 clients), the CEAA user guide, and 2 DVDs.

Significance of the Newly Developed Assessment Tool

The rapid aging of society, and the corresponding increase in the population of seniors with dementia, will create enormous pressures on the health care system, pressures that threaten creative activities and other programs, which are critical for the well-being and quality of life of seniors living with dementia. We are convinced that an assessment tool, such as the one we are developing, will help creative expression facilitators, care facility administrators, the medical establishment and the families of people with dementia appreciate how such programs contribute to the seniors' quality of life.

Benefits

If you are a creative expression facilitator:

1. You will be able to observe your clients’ creative abilities in a systematic way and monitor any changes in those abilities over time.

2. You will have a document that is easy to complete and read at glance.

3. You will have a document with reliable results for reporting in meetings with your colleagues, administration and families.

4. It is an excellent assessment tool to get to know new clients and document their creative expression abilities.

5. You will be able to monitor your sessions and how effective they are by analyzing the responses of your clients.

6. You can use the tool as a guide in planning your activities to suit each client.

If you are an administrator of a care facility:

1. You will be able to monitor how your residents respond to various programs.

2. You will have a tool that provides specific reports on residents’ creative abilities to complement medical reports.

3. You may use this tool in planning your budget for effective recreation activities and guidance in hiring facilitators.

If you are a researcher:

1. You will have a tool which is based on solid quantitative research.

2. You will be able to measure creative abilities in a quantitative way following these ratings.

• Testing the tool yielded consistent results among raters with 80% agreement most of the time.
   
• The tool is internally consistent in demonstrating whether the items measure the same things or different things at higher than 0.9.
   
• Comparing scores that were achieved when rated in real time vs. video observation by 2 trained observers revealed similar scores, and the Inter-rater agreement measured around 0.8.
   
• In contrast, observations of non-structured activities as residents go about their daily routines and do not engage in creative expression activities revealed very low scores.

3. It will provide you an excellent way to monitor your subjects in a range of domains, such as memory and attention.

4. The accompanying manual is easy to follow and an excellent training resource.

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