Which assessment category asks students to solve new problems to demonstrate thinking?

• A. Creativity - give new problems to solve
• B. Cognitive - learning tasks
• C. Concept understanding - give new example
• D. Comprehension - apply in contexts

Answer: (A)

Thinking creatively in assessment means asking students to generate original solutions to problems they haven’t seen before. Giving new problems to solve pushes them to transfer knowledge, invent strategies, and combine ideas in novel ways, which reveals flexible, inventive thinking. That’s why this option best represents creativity in assessment. The other categories focus more on processes students use with familiar tasks (cognitive), applying a known idea to a fresh example (concept understanding), or interpreting and applying information in context (comprehension). While those are important, they don’t specifically require producing new, original solutions to unfamiliar situations.