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Written by Ellen Spencer, ill Lucas and Guy Claxton, 2012)
- Creativity, Culture and Education
- Concept of assessment for Creativity is valid and relevant
- Framework would be formative, supporting students to harness more of their creativity
- Difficult for schools to sustain a credible focus on the development of creativity, while conforming simultaneous to mandatory forms of assessment
- "Creativity is a complex, multi dimensional phenomenon, which prevents promotion of a universally accepted definition". ( Treffinger, 2002)
- The challenge for an assessment tool of individuals' creativity is in allowing sufficient scope for the social element of creativity to be accounted for .
- Do we assess creativity formatively (helping pupils improve) or summatively (enabling comparison)
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Examples of RelativeHabits of Mind (Art Costa)
- Inquisitive
- Persistent
- Imaginative
- Collaborative
- Disciplined
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3 dimensions
- strength = level of independence of pupils in terms of their need for teacher prompts of scaffolding or congenial conditions
- breadth = ability of student to exercise creative disposition in anew domain
- Depth = level of sophistication of disposition application and the extent they were appropriate for the occasion
- "Strength" and "Breadth" were less subjective measures of creativity than "depth"
- Terms of creativity: inquisitive, wondering questioning, exploring, investigating, challenging