Report Card 2.0-- 32 Traits of Creative People

Robert Alan Black Ph.D. lists 32 Traits of Creative People.
I wonder if these might not make an interesting framework for a report card. Call it the report of the future, or Report Card 2.0.

1. sensitive
2. not motivated by money
3. sense of destiny
4. adaptable
5. tolerant of ambiguity
6. observant
7. perceive world differently
8. see possibilities
9. question asker
10. can synthesize correctly often intuitively
11. able to fantasize
12. flexible
13. fluent
14. imaginative
15. intuitive
16. original
17. ingenious
18. energetic
19. sense of humor
20. self-actualizing
21. self-disciplined
22. self-knowledgeable
23. specific interests
24. divergent thinker
25. curious
26. open-ended
27. independent
28. severely critical
29. non-conforming
30. confident
31. risk taker
32. persistent

Imagine the curriculum that would have to be created to generate evidence of the student's proficiency of these 32 traits. Imagine the learning opportunities that students would need to be afforded to measure their proficiency in these traits.

It could completely change education in some very important and fundamental ways.

Comments

[Alan (Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP)]

Say Keng Lee

Thank you for mentioning my 32 traits.

I discovered those during a research project as part of my doctoral research in 1980. My study involved searching articles written by experts on creativity research about traits of highly creative people. The list of 32 are those that at least 5 experts from around the globe agree upon.

Now I use a list of 52 including the 20 that my mentor and friend, Dr. E. Paul Torrance, Mr. Creativity, used as measures in his world-famous Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Now I use all 52 as a score card and the structure of my weekly Alan's Cre8ng Challenges.

Alan
alan@cre8ng.com

[Suria]

Spot on!

I'd use this in the evaluation of my own kids instead of their report cards :))

[Rob Jacobs]

Suria, these traits would probably be more meaningful in the long run than.