The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has built a novel assessment that captures elements of creative thinking and that will be administered in its 2022 cycle. Assessing creative thinking represents a natural progression for PISA – the global yardstick for educational success – which has always focused on measuring young people’s ability to apply their knowledge to novel situations. The major innovation of this new assessment lies in the open-ended nature of the tasks, with students encouraged to express their imagination and suggest creative solutions in a variety of open contexts. It is their capacity to think flexibly and propose original answers that will be rewarded on the test, not the extent to which their answer is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. This illustrated brochure summarises the thinking underpinning the PISA 2022 creative thinking assessment and sets forth its design.
