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ERIC Number: ED615601
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 7
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Modeling Creativity in Visual Programming: From Theory to Practice
Kovalkov, Anastasia; Paassen, Benjamin; Segal, Avi; Gal, Kobi; Pinkwart, Niels
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (14th, Online, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2021)
Promoting creativity is considered an important goal of education, but creativity is notoriously hard to define and measure. In this paper, we make the journey from defining a formal creativity and applying the measure in a practical domain. The measure relies on core theoretical concepts in creativity theory, namely fluency, flexibility, and originality, We adapt the creativity measure for Scratch projects. We designed a machine learning model for predicting the creativity of Scratch projects, trained and evaluated on ratings collected from expert human raters. Our results show that the automatic creativity ratings achieved by the model aligned with the rankings of the projects of the expert raters more than the experts agreed with each other. This is a first step in providing computational models for describing creativity that can be applied to educational technologies, and to scale up the benefit of creativity education in schools. [For the full proceedings, see ED615472.]
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: https://educationaldatamining.org/conferences/
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Vietnam; Cuba; India; Israel
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
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