Assessment for Creative Learners
- 1. Assessment for Creative Learners S.Raja kumar, Assistant Professor, Thiagarajar College of Preceptors, Madurai-09
- 2. Creativity Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others.
- 3. The assessment of learning of creative students will consist of activities like the teacher providing for suitable contexts. � creativity expressed �Observe the behaviour �Assessing group work activity �Asking open ended questions �Group discussion �Analyze their responses �Brain storming �Quiz – exam based “cognitive skill” 3 Assessment for creative students
- 4. Assessing students’ activities In Creative Contexts � Language subject class- the teacher can present a topic and ask students to compose a poem on it write a small essay on the given topic etc. � Mathematics class-solve the given puzzles, solve the given problems. particularly in arithmetic � Science- Conducting experiment in laboratory, conducting small test and preparing learning aids from waste material. 4
- 5. Assessing through Group Work •Activities in group work like sharing one’s ideas with others. •Suggesting different possible solutions to a problem or an issue. •Approaching problems in alternate routes etc.
- 6. “ Asking open-ended questions 6 Instead of asking the traditional question What are the advantages of friction? What would happen if there is no friction at all in this word?” What are the benefits of the Himalayas to India?” What would have happened to India, it there is no Himalayan range of mountains? Topics such as the following can be given to students to express their creative ideas i) If I become the Indian Prime Minister ii) If I become a scientist iii) If I get an opportunity to go to a different planet
- 7. To test the subject knowledge among students to Providing a subject topic and asking students to talk on it at a short notice and discuss the topic in front of the students and teacher Providing a subject topic and asking students to talk on it at a short notice / conducting a quiz programme � Similarly, quiz programmes could be conducted using the subject content. in this, only students with creative ability reply quickly to the questions asked. 7
- 8. “� The teacher could observe and analyse the participation of creative students in different kinds of group work like ‘group discussion’, ‘group project', ‘debate’ etc. � The teacher should prepare achievement tests, giving more importance for ‘application’ type test items rather than those which test students‘ ability to recall the facts from memory’. 8
- 9. “ � Conclusion � Above the approaches and techniques can assess the creative learners in the classroom 9