Journal 2 Creativity and Teacher-made tests

As for two-step theories of creativity, divergent and evaluative thinking process are required to make final creative achievement (Baer, 2003). Teacher-made tests, as a pervasive educational practice, narrow the divergent thinking spaces (Sternberg, 2005). Mostly taken in the forms of multiple choices, students are unlikely to have chance to brainstorm but to choose right or wrong answers with strict time limit (Sternberg, 2005). These multiple choices are mainly focus on factual and conceptual knowledge, examining students’ remembering and understanding levels. However, there are not enough…