Non-expert raters and Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (CSDS)

Cropley, D., & Kaufman, J. (2012). Measuring Functional Creativity: Non‐Expert Raters and the Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale. Journal of Creative Behavior, 46, 119-137. The Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (CSDS) is a 30-item scale based on a core of four criteria: Relevance & Effectiveness, Novelty, Elegance, and Genesis. The CSDS offers potential for the consensual assessment of […]

Britzman’s (1991) “Practice Makes Practice”: Consonance and Dissonance from an Account of Student Teachers’ Negative Experience

Britzman’s (1991) “Practice Makes Practice” made me question seriously how researchers could represent their subjects’ experience without fabricating a relationship of inequality among human beings.  You may be interested in reading Chapter 3 of the book to see how the researcher portrayed one of her protagonists as a person lacking in intellectual capacity. I have […]