ERIC Number: ED673389
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025-May-5
Pages: 60
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Creative Minds in Action: Students' Imagination and Ideas in Storytelling, Design and Problem Solving Tasks on the PISA Test. OECD Education Policy Perspectives. No. 120
Sofia Bertolaja; Said Ettejjari; Natalie Foster
OECD Publishing
Recognising the importance of developing creativity in education, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an assessment of creative thinking for the first time in its 2022 cycle -- with the results summarised in the PISA 2022 Results (Volume III) report. While that report focused on comparing countries' performance on the test and examining how performance related to student and school factors, it did not explore the rich information in students' ideas to unpack the different ways in which students around the world can think creatively. In this report, we take a deeper dive into the minds of students to examine their creative potential and analyse the content of creative responses across select countries and economies. In particular, we examine what kinds of creative ideas 15-year-old students around the world have in response to different tasks, and we explore how even the most underprivileged students are capable of thinking creatively.
Descriptors: Imagination, Concept Formation, Story Telling, Design, Problem Solving, Task Analysis, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Cognitive Processes, Socioeconomic Status, Social Problems, Science Process Skills
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: LEGO Foundation
Authoring Institution: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (France)
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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