Can it be done?
Kate Smith
Thanks to Central Elementary School in South Berwick and Maine Arts Assessment Initiative Teacher Leader Kate Smith for the following review of an article entitled Assessing Creativity. The article is from Educational Leadership.
This is a fantastic article from Educational Leadership about assessing creativity. I like how the author illustrated the importance of separating the assessment of the content knowledge from creativity. I can remember (as a student) a rubric in which covering the content was “mastered”, or an “A” but if you were creative, you got an “A+”. It always felt wrong. Or how about when you’d ask your teacher for feedback and she’d say, “well… (pause) it was creative.” (Okay, maybe that only happened to me.) And I also like the definition of “creative” in this article. Yup, it was a good article!
To read the article please click here.
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