Artifacts Generated by Learners During Their Super Skills Lab Experience Serve as Evidence of Creative Skills Development

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Yigal Rosen, PhD

June 23, 2022

Creative Process

Generate Original Ideas

Generate Diverse Ideas

Evaluate and Improve

Recognize and Transfer

Just-in-Time Embedded Assessments in the Super Skills BETA

• The 2022 Super Skills BETA testing demonstrated promising evidence on the ability to measure creative skills while learners are engaged in creative play with a sample of participants of different ages, most in the range of 6-10 y/o
• All artifacts were tagged by one or more underlying creative skills and scored using rubrics
• Key results and psychometric characteristics of all items are included in the main research presentation
• The following slides provide illustrative examples for artifacts learners generated by creative skill during their Super Skills BETA experience

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9 y/o:

"A caterpillar lives in a house. Some kids were making some lemonade and he got angry. After trying some lemonade he felt better."

Generate Original Ideas

Creative Process

7 y/o:

Creative Process

Generate Original Ideas

Evaluate and Improve

8 y/o:

Creative Process

Generate Original Ideas

Evaluate and Improve

6 y/o:

"Well, first we divided our bricks between us in which we got 3 identical colors of duplo blocks. Then it's up to you to build whatever you wanna build .. it's just having fun while spending your time at home.. We are enjoying our time 😍"

Recognize and Transfer

Creative Process

Improve your launcher for further distance. Share a picture of your improvements!

10 y/o:

12 y/o:

8 y/o:

Evaluate and Improve

Write three ideas for ways to test your rocketship before launching to the moon. The ideas should be as different from each other as possible!

The Star Heroes need your help with the design of a rocketship that Skillgore would not be able to recognize. Write about your design, or upload a picture!

Write about your design and/or upload a picture.

• “Need to pass the noise test, it has to be quiet enough"
• "The speed test...it needs to go onto outerspace really fast"
• "The power test...hope the rocket has enough energy to fly”

10 y/o: "The spaceship has an invisibility button to help it disappear when enemies come near. It can shoot out smoke to distract the enemies."

Generate Original Ideas

Generate Diverse Ideas

Create a fun obstacle course with/for your friends. Challenge each other with activities and see who manages to complete all!

Share a picture of your obstacle course and write instructions on how to make your course for other children to follow.

10 y/o: “First you go around the chair and then roll across the couch then bounce over the ball onto the trampoline and then on to dog bed through the dining room and upstairs and then back down to the chair. My friends can do it in 60 seconds.”

8 y/o: “Start with one foot in each circle then crawl under hoops then climb the stairs of the house and go down the slide then balance through the beams.”

10 y/o: Jump over the belt. Tip toe through the lego pieces. Be careful! Crawl under the piano bench. Done!!

Creative Process

Recognize and Transfer