Creative Thinking Skills Rubric Creativity is evident in fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, curiosity, risk-taking, complexity, and imagination.

Two or more of these elements should be present at a score of 3 or higher for work samples to be considered.

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FLUENCY

5
Lists many ideas or responses Perceives or approaches the problem in a number of different ways Generates many clever, unique or unusual ideas

Lists a limited number Lists a sufficient of ideas and number of ideas or responses responses Perceives or approaches the problem in a different way with assistance Perceives or approaches the problem in a different way

FLEXIBILITY

ORIGINALITY unique or unusual

Generates few clever, Generates several clever, unique or ideas unusual ideas

ELABORATION

Adds details, expands Expands, develops Expands, develops and or embellishes ideas and embellishes ideas embellishes ideas by with assistance by adding details adding details and making changes Demonstrates little Demonstrates curiosity and desire to curiosity about issues know more about and pursues issues additional information Deals with unstructured situations; experiments and guesses with assistance Deals with problems; brings order to situations, deals with change when assisted Deals with unstructured situations; predicts, guesses, and experiments to a sufficient degree Demonstrates a high degree of curiosity, seeks additional information and independent study Demonstrates a high degree of willingness to take chances, defends ideas, experiments, predicts and puts plans into action

CURIOSITY

RISK-TAKING

COMPLEXITY

Seeks alternatives; Seeks alternatives; deals with change and deals with intricate problems, and brings problems and ideas, order to situations and develops plans into logical order

IMAGINATION

Visualizes plans, ideas Visualizes plans, ideas Visualizes and and thoughts when and thoughts; sees imagines plans, assisted beyond the practical thoughts, ideas, outcomes and consequences to a high degree