Assessing Creative Skills

Creativity or creative thinking are often viewed as intangibles that we can observe in their impact and consequences, but itself is hard to define assess. Some would even argue assessments, which generally look for the capacity of students find refine pre-defined answers, stand direct opposition efforts strengthen creativity. However, what cannot see improve measure will not get attention. For this reason, OECD Programme International Student Assessment (PISA) making build a novel assessment capture elements thinking. The approach based on evidence-centred design involves documented, explicit linkages among test purposes, assumptions made about takers seeks them, evidence supporting claims. This paper summarises rationale assessment.