AI could improve creativity assessments for young students, a new University of Georgia study finds.
Creative assessments are used to identify gifted students so that schools can adequately support them. But, they aren’t as common as math and reading tests since they pose open-ended questions that require evaluation from multiple people.
A team at UGA’s Mary Frances Early College of Education finds that AI could make these tests more accessible to schools and the data that they provide more accurate.
Along with his team, Denis Dumas, Associate Professor of educational psychology and the study’s author, collected data on how judges determine the originality of students’ responses. Understanding where people disagree allows the team to adjust the AI system to make it more accurate.
According to Dumas, with a more efficient way to measure assessment responses, creativity tests could become universal in gifted and talented programs.
