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Assessing Creativity Sternberg’s Way
On a little break from dissertation writing, I chose to read something on creativity research. I know, “You call this a break?” Much too serious? *smile* I’m reading Robert Sternberg’s (2012) article on The Assessment of Creativity: The Investment-Based Approach (IBA). He like Tharp (2005), writes that “[c]reativity is a habit” (Sternberg, 2006a, 2006b; Tharp, 2005), “an attitude toward life” (Maslow, 1967; Schank, 1988; Sternberg, 2003b). He writes about some habitual practices (p. 3) of creative people that have been reported previously. Creative people regularly do a few things: (a)…