Creativity Assessment in the Classroom: Paradox or Paramount?
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Assessing Creativity in the Classroom: Paramount or Paradox? Lisa Rubenstein, Ph.D. Purdue University September 30, 2014
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This presentation highlights general assessment principles in relationship to creativity in the classroom.
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Assessing Creativity in the Classroom:
Paramount or Paradox?
Lisa Rubenstein, Ph.D.Purdue UniversitySeptember 30, 2014
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How do you define creativity?
Definitional Debate
Continuum of Cs (Kaufman & Beghetto)
Person, process, product, press (Rhodes)
Sociocultural dependent (Craft; sternberg)
Fuzzy Definition
Fuzzy Assessment
Fuzzy Definition
Fuzzy Assessment
“How do you break it to them? It is not quite right but its great? How can you stand in judgement of somebody else’s creativity?”
Participant quote from Myhill & Wilson (2013)
How should we assess Mathematics?
How should we assess Mathematics?
“How do you break it to them? It is not quite right but its great? How can you stand in judgement of somebody else’s creativity?” mathematics?”
How should we assess creativity?
How should we assess mathematics?
How are these questions alike or
different?
General Assessment Guidelines
Assessments cover important content, process skills, and ideas.
Assessments match specific goals. (Direct Alignment)
Multiple assessments provide a more accurate and nuanced picture.
Assessments cover important
content, skills, and ideas.
What is the purpose of assessment?
Why assess?
Diagnostic Tool
Growth Measurement
Competency Evidence
Student Metacognition
Inform Instruction
Assessment methods and requirements probably have a greater influence on how and what students learn than any other single factor.
-Boud, 1988, pg. 35
Why assess?
Diagnostic Tool
Growth Measurement
Competency Evidence
Student Metacognition
Inform Instruction
what is worth
assessing?
What makes something worth assessing?
Fundamental
Transferable
Useful
Vital to professional Life
Vital to everyday Life
Why is creativity worth assessing?
Assessments match specific goals.
Which is more creative?
Creativity is not animals with long eyelashes.
Lilian Katz
If creativity is as important as literacy (Robinson)...
Then we need specific objectives that address it.
Dual Objectives
Content Objective:
Creative Objective:
My Possible Suggestions
Fluency
Flexibility
Originality
Elaboration
Application
Risk Taking
Question Asking
Problem Solving
Collaboration/Communication
Connections
Imagination
Visualization
Choose.
Let’s say the content goal is to write an acrostic poem...
What could the creative goal be?
Su
san
B
rookh
art
Wiggin’s Rubric
Multiple assessments
provide a more accurate and
nuanced picture.
Assessing CreativityAppraise creativity separately. Deliberately.
For smaller projects, give feedback and allow corrections.
Don’t wait until the end of a large project. Use checkpoints to offer feedback.
Be more productive than “I like that...” (Include why)
Don’t assess creativity all the time for a grade.
General Assessment Guidelines Review
Assessments cover important content, process skills, and ideas.
Assessments match specific goals. (Direct Alignment)
Multiple assessments provide a more accurate and nuanced picture.
