Developing Integrated Creativity Assessments: Building on the Creative Action-Assessment Cycle for the Engineering Classroom

这个工程教育研究项目寻求综合有效的方法来衡量工程课程中创造力的发展，然后将这些措施广泛提供给STEM社区。 PI以前已经开发了基于行动评估周期来衡量创造力的指标，在这个周期中，个人既创造又消费创造性的行动和工件。 开发的指标将应用于五个不同的课程的测试床，以了解有效评估创造力的方法。更广泛的意义和重要性，这个项目是测试以前开发的框架，创造力评估，从而提高教师的能力，以促进工程课程的创造力。 将通过一个网站与创造力和评价专家群体分享衡量创造力的工具，以促进理论框架和工具的更广泛应用。 在PI的机构内，该项目如果成功，将影响学生的创造力，这可能对创新产生长期影响。

This engineering education research project seeks integrate validated means of measuring development of creativity in engineering courses, then make these measures broadly available to the STEM community. The PIs have previously developed metrics to measure creativity based on an action-assessment cycle in which individuals both create and consume creative actions and artifacts. The metrics developed will be applied in a test-bed of five diverse courses in order to understand methods of effectively assessing creativity. The broader significance and importance of this project are to test the previously developed framework for creativity assessment and thereby increase the ability of instructors to foster creativity in engineering courses. Tools for measuring creativity will be shared, via a web site, with the community of creativity and evaluation experts in order to foster broader application of the theoretical framework and instruments. Within the PI's institution the project, if successful, will impact the creativity of students which may have long term impact on innovation.