Characterising creativity : a holistic methodology for the assessment of creative works

This paper reports on the early stages of a design experiment in educational assessment that challenges the dichotomous legacy evident in many assessment activities. Combining social networking technologies with the sociology of education the paper proposes that assessment activities are best understood as a negotiable field of exchange. In this design experiment students, peers and experts engage in explicit, "front-end" assessment (Wyatt-Smith, 2008) to translate holistic judgments into institutional, and potentiality economic capital without adhering to long lists of pre-set criteria. This approach invites participants to use social networking technologies to judge creative works using scatter graphs, keywords and tag clouds. In doing so assessors will refine their evaluative expertise and negotiate the characteristics of creative works from which criteria will emerge (Sadler, 2008). The real-time advantages of web-based technologies will aggregate, externalise and democratise this transparent method of assessment for most, if not all, creative works that can be represented in a digital format.

Creative works of Nirmal Varma

Hindi

Original virtue and other short studies

by S. Levy

The life of Louis XI, the rebel dauphin and the statesman king, from his original letters and other documents;

"Printed in Great Britain."

The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints; compiled from original monuments and other authentic records, illustrated with the remarks of judicious modern critics and historians. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Bernard Gilpin, collected from his life, written by George Carleton, bishop of Chichester, from other printed accounts of the times he lived in, from original letters, and other authentic records.

Appended to the biography is "A sermon preached in the court at Greenwich, before King Edward VI ... MDLII, by Bernard Gilpin. Reprinted in the year 1752" (52 p.).