ERIC Number: EJ1474552
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
EISSN: EISSN-2162-6057
Available Date: 2025-05-27
Envisioning the Future of Creative Thinking Assessment
Journal of Creative Behavior, v59 n2 e70036 2025
The PISA assessment 2022 of creative thinking was a moonshot effort that introduced significant advancements over existing creativity tests, including a broad range of domains (written, visual, social, and scientific), implementation in many languages, and sophisticated scoring methods. PISA 2022 demonstrated the general feasibility of assessing creative thinking ability comprehensively at an international scale. However, the complexity of its assessment approach--such as time-consuming scoring requiring human raters--implies the risk that it may not be easily applied by the scientific community and practitioners. In this commentary, we outline important next steps building on the PISA assessment to further enhance future assessments of creative thinking. Crucial future directions include (1) determining what tasks and scorings ensure high psychometric quality including content validity, (2) enabling efficient, objective scoring by applying AI methods such as Large Language Models (LLMs), (3) ensuring high language accessibility via multilingual tests, (4) targeting a broader age group, and (5) facilitating standardized, reproducible assessments via an open online testing platform. In sum, these developments would lead to an efficient, validated multilingual test of creative thinking, which enhances the accessibility of effective creative thinking assessments and thereby supports the democratization and reproducibility of creativity research.
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Scoring, Psychometrics, Natural Language Processing, Computer Assisted Testing, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL); National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1920653; 240078; 2155070
Author Affiliations: 1University of Graz, Austria; 2Penn State University, USA