Baptiste+Barbot


 * CS1. Baptiste Barbot **– //Creative Potential: How and Why to measure it?//

May 28 Saturday 11:30-12:15 PM HM 150

This presentation aims to introduce several techniques that are commonly used in creativity research and in school settings to assess creative potential. Strengths and weakness of these techniques are discussed and illustrated through game-style examples, leading participants to generate and evaluate creative solutions. Affiliation/Bio: Yale University, Child Study center, Post Doctoral Associate, baptiste.barbot@yale.edu. Baptiste Barbot received his PhD from the University Paris Descartes, and focuses his research on Creativity and Identity development in adolescents. He developed a method to assess creative products on an internet-based system, based on the Consensual Assessment Technique, a test for the measurement of creative potential in music. He is co-author of EPoC (Evaluation for Potential Creativity) with Maud Besançon and Todd Lubart.