Publikation
Modeling Creativity in Education
Swathi Krishnaraja; Stefani Tirkova; Anastasia Kovalkov; Benjamin Paaßen; Kobi Gal; Niels Pinkwart
In: Computer-Based Diagnostics and Systematic Analysis of Knowledge: Critical Reflections and Advancements, Pages 159--, Springer Nature, 4/2025.
Zusammenfassung
Creativity is one of the vital elements for developing intelligence and is often defined as the ability to produce works that are novel and valuable. Fostering creative thinking in education is important for one's cognitive development. Yet, integrating creative thinking practices in technology supported education has been scarce due to the conflicting definitions and opinions on how to measure and assess creativity in students work. In this chapter, we try to answer the following questions: 1) How to assess creativity in a student's product? 2) How to automate the process of assessing creativity? and 3) What criteria do teachers use for assessing student products? In order to answer these, we developed a creativity assessment tool specifically designed to assess creativity in visual programming projects, integrated with intelligent methods and techniques, eg, using ensemble machine learning models (trained on examples from creativity experts) such as extreme gradient boosting, to quantify and predict creativity along several literature-based psychometric