Assess Creativity for Student Success

November 23, 2020

Takeaways from, “Novel, Effective, and Whole: Toward a New Framework for Evaluations of Creative Products,” by D. Henriksen, P. Mishra, and R. Mehta.

Tune to Patience by Shawn Mendes

How to get Student Success

[Verse 1]

Creativity, is brand new

It’s from the 21st century

Novel, effective, and whole

Yet, there are always challenges when teachers are assessing

How do we best assess this, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]

Ooh, teachers have to teach to test

Be creative we want you to try

It leads to independence

which differs for everyone

[Chorus]

First we let learners on their own yet it’s hard

to individually grade them I'm all alone

We give this five point scale, but is that the best?

How do we find success?

We want ideas that are N.E.W.

Ideas that push student success, yeah

[Verse 2]

Creativeness helps us learn best

We become our own learners

who strive to do better every time, yeah

Deep down when we offer feedback students grasp deeper thought

5 point scales leave us such a mess

[Pre-Chorus]

Ooh, let their minds be little freed

Give them freedom tests take it from me

Oh, I want the aesthetic

‘of the wholeness of products

[Chorus]

Moving forward I will take a deeper look

As a teacher and a learner perspective yeah

Keep differentiating what I teach

give students many ways

Instead of teaching to test

Ideas that drive student success, yeah

[Bridge]

And give students choice, if you know

they learn better, choice boards go

‘Have students adapt to learn

Yeah, they will be more creative

[Chorus]

Creativity is about being N.E.W.

Teachers and learners need to adapt to the times

Tell me that you willing, then you have success

Yeah, let’s change the way we think

[Outro]

First we let learners on their own yet it’s hard

21st century learning is the way to go

Tell me that you willing, adapt to the world

for the definition

of creativity to

be more concrete yet it’s up to us

to assess creativity, yeah

for we want student success, yeah