Resumen de Assessing creativity in engineering students: a comparative between degrees and students in first and last year
María Jesús García-García, Concepción González García, Luis J. Fernández, José-Luis Casado-Sánchez, María Luisa Martínez Muneta
An online open access test (CREAX self-assessment) has been used in this work so that students from degrees inengineering in the Universidad Polite ́cnica of Madrid (UPM) could self-assess their creative competence after severalclassroom activities. Different groups from the first year course have been statistically compared using data from theirassessment. These first year students had different professors in the subject ‘Technical Drawing’ and belonged to severaldegrees in the UPM. They were as well compared regarding sex and a group of first year students was also compared toanother last year group of the degree so as to observe possible differences in the achievement of this competence. Only onedifference was detected concerning sex in one of the degrees. Among degrees, the higher marks obtained by students whohad done specific exercises for the development of creativity in class is highlighted. Finally, a significantly high mark wasobserved in students during their last year of degree with respect to first year students. The tool CREAX has become veryuseful in the assessment of this competence in the UPM degrees in which it has been implemented.
