ASSESSMENT OF CREATIVITY - RESOLVING A MIDLIFE CRISIS

Assessment of creativity is reviewed with special focus on application s to education and instruction. A variety of existing instruments are described along with general criticisms of creativity measurement. A v iew to the future is offered which attempts to look beyond creativity' s ''mid-life crisis.'' In addition to continued psychometric developme nt of cognitive and affective tests, surveys, and inventories, alterna tive assessment methods and models derived from modem cognitive theori es of learning and memory have much to offer the field. We end our ana lysis with a set of guidelines for teachers and other education profes sionals to use to assess creative thinking skills and with several rec ommendations for future research and development in creativity assessm ent.