Question for reflection
What kind of data would researchers need to collect to be able to draw such a conclusion?
Are we teaching for creativity?
One area of major interest in education in recent years has of creativity. Although creativity has perhaps been associated most with artistic subjects, it is an essential part of high performance in all academic areas. So in science, for example, there is much emphasis on the logic of testing ideas experimentally, buy equally important is the process of having creative ideas about what to test (Taber, 2011b). Research is needed to explore how to best teach to support the development of students’ creativity.