초등영어 창의서술형 평가의 활성화 방안

Promoting an active use of the creativity-fostering assessment in elementary English education

Creativity fostering is one of the key objectives of modern education. Even if the main objective of elementary English education is to develop and enhance basic communication skills in English, creativity should and can also be fostered in every aspect of elementary English education. For this research, 47 experienced elementary teachers were asked to write freely their answers to the given delphi-type questionnaire consisting of 9 questions including one about respondents' background information. The questions were mostly about their perceptions of creativity and creativity-fostering 'describe-and-narrate test' of elementary English. And also how to promote the use of creativity-fostering 'describe-and-narrate test in schools was also asked. All the respondents were free in expressing their opinions and ideas, and some of the respondents were interviewed by the researcher about their unclear, if any, statements. To promote the use of the creativity-fostering tests in schools, according to the survey results, it seems necessary that some prototypes of such test, as exemplified in this paper, should be developed and provided by the government to the school teachers, at least in the initial stages. It is argued that, as the experience in using the prototypes is gained, teachers could be trained so that they could revise or improve the prototypes. Teacher training in creativity education should also be intensified.