A piece in the New York Times addresses the assessment of creativity, and has some interesting bits. Quoting "Rex Jung, a research scientist at the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque:"
One study of 65 subjects suggests that creativity prefers to take a slower, more meandering path than intelligence. “The brain appears to be an efficient superhighway that gets you from Point A to Point B” when it comes to intelligence, Dr. Jung explained. “But in the regions of the brain related to creativity, there appears to be lots of little side roads with interesting detours, and meandering little byways.”
This sounds like the diagram I [Author] use with students,
to explain how to do proofs or other creative math work.The task is to
go from some question (?) to a resolution (!) through
structured inquiry. Which is a fancy way to say trial and error. Read
the diagram from left to right.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Higher Ed/: Assessing Creativity
Author: Dave
