Creativity & Innovation Toolkit

Guidelines for assessing students' creativity

1. Offer students as wide a range of assessment options as possible
2. Specify each aspect of creativity that will be assessed
3. Allow enough time to assess the creative elements in each assignment
4. Let students know the criteria
5. Show students how their expectations and your expectations align

Let students know the criteria

Students need to know and understand the context in which they are asked to be creative, and to understand the assessment criteria for each assignment. You may want to involve them in setting all or some of the criteria so they understand more fully. Ask students to hand in the criteria sheet with their assignment, and to indicate how they would assess themselves against each of the criteria.