%0 Journal Article %T A Model for Assessing the Development of Students¡¯ Creativity in the Context of Problem Posing %A Atara Shriki %J Creative Education %P 430-439 %@ 2151-4771 %D 2013 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ce.2013.47062 %X

In a changing technological society, creativity is recognized as the vehicle of economic and social growth. Although the education system has a central role in developing all students¡¯ creativity, it is not often nurtured in schools. Several conditions are offered to justify this situation, among them: external pressures to cover the curriculum and succeed in standardized tests that generally require rote implementation of rules and algorithmic thinking; teachers¡¯ tendency to teach similarly to the way they themselves were taught as school students; relating creativity to giftedness, and therefore avoiding nurturing all students¡¯ creativity; teachers¡¯ difficulties in assessing their students¡¯ creativity and its development due to a lack of an available simple tool; and more. This paper is aimed at responding to the latter condition, suggesting a coherent and accessible tool or model for assessing students¡¯ creativity and its development in the context of problem posing. The proposed model considers 4 measurable aspects of creativity-fluency, flexibility, originality and organization, and a total score of creativity that is based on relative weights of each aspect. Viewing creativity as relative, the scores for these 4 aspects reflect learner¡¯s achievements in relation to his or her reference group. The proposed model has two flexible components¡ªthe first relates to teachers¡¯ interpretation of originality, and the second relates to the weights they may wish to ascribe each aspect of creativity. In addition, it is suggested to provide learners with a graphical display of their scores and progress in order to enable them to refine their products in successive iterations. The examples in this paper are taken from mathematics; however the proposed model can be adapted to any other discipline.

%K Evaluation of Creativity %K Problem Posing %K The ¡°What-If-Not?¡± Strategy %K Self-Assessment of Creativity %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=34150