Tuval Raz

You may think of a new way to get to work.

You may figure out a small problem in your life.

That's creativity.

And there isn't one exact way to be creative.

There is a lot of research on that, which I don't have time to go into.

But the good news is that we're all creative in our own way.

And it's not just artists or these big scientists or whatever.

Yeah, for sure.

It was a pleasure.

Hello, Dave.

It's great to meet here.

Yeah, I think that's the, of course, you sort of touched on the heart of this sort of paradox or sort of contrast.

We want to encourage our students to ask good questions.

But our research actually shows that if we test them on question asking and then measure their success through these sort of standardized tests, we see that the ones who actually ask the most creative questions, the most complex questions are actually the ones who do poor on these standardized tests.

There is a sort of silver lining because we do that.

We see that they improve on these sort of open ended tasks where there isn't one correct answer.

But sadly, research shows that over 70 percent of tests in courses in academia are actually standardized tests.

So we're actually measuring them on things that hurt them.

So pardon the pun, but that's a good question.

Yeah, there are all sorts of questions when you think about it.