Can creativity be taught?
A multidimensional assessment gives students feedback, which helps them discover their strengths and identify areas in which they need to improve. The scores on such assessments can also help an educational programme to review its results, consider its position and modify the course if necessary. The 1998 evaluation of the latest Swedish curricula indicates that both students and teachers need to be more aware of the processual dimensions of creative work and
to reflect upon the ‘dispositional’ qualities that are involved. The students made progress in terms of visual design, it is true, but they did not improve on those dimensions of creativity that we have summarized under the rubrics of investigative
work, inventiveness, ability to use models and capacity for self-assessment.