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  1. Creative Problem-Solving Test

    This Creative Problem-solving Test was developed to evaluate whether your attitude towards problem-solving and the manner in which you approach a problem are conducive to creative thinking. This ...

  2. FourSight®

    Use FourSight to help teams work. First, discover your own approach to problem-solving. Then get tools to do it better. When you can see on a graph how your approach to solve a complex problem is unique, you can also see how it contributes to and may cause conflict on the team. Use the FourSight Thinking profile to discover your thinking ...

  3. Creative Problem Solving

    The PISA 2012 Creative Problem Solving assessment measures students' capacity to engage in cognitive processing to understand and resolve problem situations where a method of solution is not immediately obvious.This includes the willingness to engage with such situations in order to achieve one's potential as a constructive and reflective citizen.

  4. How to Assess Your Creative Problem Solving Skills

    1. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Be the first to add your personal experience. 2. CPS Style Assessment. Be the first to add your personal experience. 3. Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory ...

  5. PDF Creative Problem Solving

    CPS is a comprehensive system built on our own natural thinking processes that deliberately ignites creative thinking and produces innovative solutions. Through alternating phases of divergent and convergent thinking, CPS provides a process for managing thinking and action, while avoiding premature or inappropriate judgment. It is built upon a ...

  6. Thinking Outside the Box: The PISA 2022 Creative Thinking Assessment

    Not all problems require creative thinking: creative problem solving is a distinct class of problem solving characterised by novelty, unconventionality, persistence, and ill-defined problems ...

  7. PDF Creative Problem Solving (CPS)

    What is Creative Problem Solving? Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a structured process for solving problems or finding opportunities, used when you want to go beyond conventional thinking and arrive at creative (novel and useful) solutions. A primary difference between CPS and other problem‐solving

  8. Key findings

    Key findings from the 2015 PISA test. The main focus of the 2015 assessment was science, with around 540 000 15-year-old students in 72 countries and economies tested., PISA 2012 Results: Creative Problem Solving: Students' skills in tackling real-life problems (Volume V) examines the extent to which 15-year-olds have acquired the problem-solving skills needed in the 21st century.

  9. Innovation

    The PISA 2012 Creative Problem Solving assessment provides internationally comparable data on students' capacity to understand and resolve problem situations where a method of solution is not immediately obvious. It includes the willingness to engage with such situations in order to achieve one's potential as a constructive and reflective ...

  10. Assessments & Tools

    ASSESSMENTS & TOOLS. Creative Problem-Solving Tools. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a method for managing creativity, innovation, and change. It's power has been proven for nearly seventy years. It includes a framework that allows you to design your approach, guidelines for generating and focusing options, positive language that is fit for ...

  11. A Critical Review of Assessments of Creativity in Education

    Many product-based creativity assessments utilize creative problem-solving tasks and creative products created by individuals or groups and then score them with preset criteria or raters' subjective criteria with the use of the CAT. These tasks could be easily adapted as authentic tasks if being contextualized under creativity in education.

  12. Creative Problem-Solving Approach: Skills, Framework, 3 Real-life

    Alex Osborn and Sydney Parnes originated the creative problem-solving approach in the 1940s. The approach involves three main steps: problem identification, ideation, and implementation. Firstly, it is essential to identify the specific problem or issue that needs solving. Then, once you have identified the problem, it's time for ideation ...

  13. Creative Problem Solving

    Key Points. Creative problem solving (CPS) is a way of using your creativity to develop new ideas and solutions to problems. The process is based on separating divergent and convergent thinking styles, so that you can focus your mind on creating at the first stage, and then evaluating at the second stage.

  14. What Is Creative Problem-Solving & Why Is It Important?

    Its benefits include: Finding creative solutions to complex problems: User research can insufficiently illustrate a situation's complexity. While other innovation processes rely on this information, creative problem-solving can yield solutions without it. Adapting to change: Business is constantly changing, and business leaders need to adapt.

  15. Examining the assessment of creativity with ...

    The assessment of creative problem solving (CPS) is challenging. Elements of an assessment procedure, such as the tasks that are used and the raters who assess those tasks, introduce variation in student scores that do not necessarily reflect actual differences in students' creative problem solving abilities. When creativity researchers ...

  16. Why Every Educator Needs to Teach Problem-Solving Skills

    Critical and creative thinking help students approach a problem objectively, analyze its components, and determine different ways to go about finding a solution. ... Get started with our problem-solving assessment tools to measure and build students' problem-solving skills today! These skills will be invaluable to students now and in the future.

  17. Creativity and problem-solving: Implications for classroom assessment

    Abstract. Four processes are at the core of "creative" problem-solving: finding problems, generating novelty, defining solutions, and recognizing solutions. The statement of the problem itself ...

  18. Creative Thinking

    The PISA 2022 Creative Thinking assessment measures students' capacity to engage productively in the generation, evaluation and improvement of ideas that can result in original and effective solutions, advances in knowledge, and impactful expressions of imagination. ... visual expression, social problem solving and scientific problem solving ...

  19. Full article: Assessing creative thinking skills in higher education

    Creative thinking in the social problem-solving context involves looking at the problem from both a technical and a social perspective. These two domains are characterised by generating original, innovative, effective, and efficient solutions. Knowledge creation and creative problem-solving directly apply to the assessment we use in this study.

  20. The Development of a Critical-Creative Reading Assessment Based on

    The critical-creative reading ability can be measured through problem-solving-based assessments because the assessment contains tasks that require students to find problems, analyze and evaluate them, and then work out the solutions (Jonassen, 2010).Problem-solving-based assessments involve a cognitive operation directed to discover the unknown (Anderson, 2010).

  21. PDF Assessing Creative Problem Solving Ability in Mathematics: Assessment

    DISCOVER Mathematics Assessment to allow evaluators to better measure creative problem solving ability in mathematics, identify gifted students, and evaluate the programs developed for fostering creative problem solving. The data for this study consisted of 233 students selected from five different grade levels.

  22. Automatic Scoring of Creative Problem-Solving with Large Language

    Creative problem-solving is a naturalistic form of creative thinking involving the generation of solutions that are not only original but also of high quality (i.e., plausible and effective ...