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Anderson, Ross C.; Beghetto, Ronald A.; Glaveanu, Vlad; Basu, Marina – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
The "consensual assessment technique" (CAT) represents one of the most popular evaluation techniques used by researchers to assess creative artifacts. In this paper we discuss how the prototypical use of the CAT, while useful for identifying unambiguous examples of creative artifacts, can inadvertently kill the curiosity of researchers…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Creativity, Creative Activities, Self Expression
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Beghetto, Ronald A.; Anderson, Ross C. – Education Sciences, 2022
The purpose of this article is to introduce an action-oriented framework aimed at clarifying and promoting a principled approach to creativity in education. A principled approach to creativity refers to the design and implementation of positive creative educational endeavors, which are guided by a set of agreed-upon commitments aimed at making a…
Descriptors: Creativity, Psychology, Well Being, Intention
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Beghetto, Ronald A. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
How might teachers transform routine tasks into non-routine ones? The purpose of this article is to address this question. The article opens with a discussion of why non-routine problems require creative and original thought. Specifically, I discuss how non-routine problems require students to confront uncertainty and how uncertainty can serve as…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Creative Thinking
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Gajda, Aleksandra; Karwowski, Maciej; Beghetto, Ronald A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
This article reports on a meta-analysis of 120 studies (total N = 52,578; 782 effects) examining the relationship between creativity and academic achievement in research conducted since the 1960s. Average correlation between creativity and academic achievement was r = 0.22, 95% CI [0.19, 0.24]. An analysis of moderators revealed that this…
Descriptors: Creativity, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Correlation