Lisa Rubenstein, PhD

Ball State University

Creative thinking promotes psychological well-being, academic achievement, and societal advancements, making it a desirable skill for all students to develop. Thus, the goal of this presentation is to examine how existing classroom assessment methods can be transformed to capture students’ creative thinking. These assessments provide important feedback on students’ thought processes, which teachers can use to inform future instruction and researchers can use to better understand the complex construct of creativity. 

Lisa Rubenstein, PhD, is an associate professor at Ball State University. She has experience as a classroom teacher and a research associate at the National Center for the Gifted and Talented. She currently directs Ball State’s undergraduate gifted and talented programs and recently received the National Association of Gifted Children’s Early Scholar Award. Her research currently examines the intersection of creativity and learning.