Creativity is something that is not taught but learned through self-reflection. Creativity requires being able to express your thoughts through words or other various forms of expression. Creativity allows students to find practical solutions to everyday problems by applying them to real-life situations. This teaches students that there may be multiple ways to solve a problem, but no one solution is better than the other. “People who are creatively successful go beyond simply performing a job, becoming sources of new ideas, discoveries and inventions” (Zagursky). Students who are more creative thinkers; instead, standardized test takers may have difficulty advancing in class. According to Kim Zagursky, the Torrance Test is the most widely used creativity test in the world and is the best predictor of creative achievement. The Torrance test, named after creator E. Paul Torrance, was developed in the late 1950s as a potential tool for individualizing students' education (Zagursky). Unfortunately, creativity is declining among our students as time goes by. There is growing concern about their ability to form their own opinions about the ideas they have read. The questions in Sternberg's Politics Kaleidoscope were designed to measure creativity, analytical, practical, and wisdom-based skills and attitudes (DiMaria 55). The Sternberg policy is currently used in the state of Oklahoma
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