A Software Instrument for the Assessment of Creativity in the Educational Environment

Abstract

One of the reasons why we don’t have an education system focused on the systematic development of the creativity of the students is that we don’t have appropriate instruments for the assessment of creativity in the educational environment. The existing creativity assessment tools reflect the confusion and lack of consensus regarding the nature of the creativity. For the 100 definitions of the creativity there are as many evaluation and measuring tools. Most of them are designed for research purposes, so they are complex, difficult to apply and score, and expensive. The present paper describes the development of a new self report measure for the creativity that can be accessed online, and is easily applicable in the educational environment. To this purpose, we have developed a new scale and a fuzzy logic algorithm for automated scoring. The validation of this instrument is a work in progress, but the initial results are promising.