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Assessing CPS Performance: Practical Resources for Assessing and Documenting Creative Problem Solving Outcomes. Third Edition.

Treffinger, Donald J. – 2000

This guide contains 12 practical tools to help educators link instruction in Creative Problem Solving (CPS) with today's focus on authentic assessment. It offers a variety of practical, reproducible instruments and checklists for use in evaluating students' knowledge of CPS concepts and tools, assessing students' attitudes about CPS and their…

Descriptors: Check Lists, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education

This Is a Messy Job, but Somebody's Got to Do It!

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Pearson, Erica – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996

Five problem-based learning activities tested by fourth-grade gifted students are suggested. Each open-ended problem is intended to be worked on by a small group for 30 minutes. Student reactions are quoted and analyzed, noting that students became more willing to take risks, test the properties and limits of their materials, and learn from their…

Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity