Thursday, September 5, 2013

Creativity and Assessment

I'm not sure how I feel about creativity in the EFL classroom. Of course higher order thinking is a great thing, but it doesn't seem to be in many job descriptions or part of assessment goals. Having said that, here's a brief article to get you thinking about the message our assessment is sending to students. You might consider this idealistic, but I think it is good practice to consider our students' perspectives. (I promise I'll start posting more practical/method stuff, but this is what I'm reading now)


 Beghetto, R. A. (June 06, 2005). Does Assessment Kill Student Creativity?. Educational  Forum, The, 69, 2, 254-263.


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  1. UnknownSeptember 17, 2013 at 10:46 PM

    If you're interested, I've got a really good ebook on creativity. Email me and I'll send it to you. Note that the book doesn't deal with creativity in the language classroom at all, just creativity in general.

    gcsnow@gmail.com

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  2. UnknownSeptember 17, 2013 at 10:48 PM

    Also, if you've never seen John Cleese's talk on creativity, it's worth a look. The URL is:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmY4-RMB0YY

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