Abstract
Background: Given the importance of stimulating the creative potential of students in the classroom, it is relevant to investigate how the assessment of learning, especially the use of feedbacks, can contribute to this issue. Objectives: This article aims to discuss what characterises creative feedback in the mathematics field and illustrates this characterisation by reporting a pedagogical practice carried out with students attending the last year of high school in a Brazilian public school. Design: Qualitative analysis of reports of students who participated in a pedagogical activity. Settings and participants: Four students enrolled in the 3rd grade of high school integrated with professional education in a public educational institution in the Brazilian capital. The students participated voluntarily after an invitation to the institution. Data collection and analysis: The data was collected from recordings of video calls through Google Meet platform and students’ written production through WhatsApp instant messaging application. Results: The messages exchanged between the teacher and the students revealed that the feedback focused on developing creativity enabled them to create different and innovative ideas. Conclusions: Creative feedback proved to be an important concept to stimulate students’ mathematical creativity. We suggest research on critical thinking development through creative feedback and creative peer feedback for further investigations.
Highlights
Motivated by the specialised literature and the need to foster creativity in school, especially in mathematics, we proposed using a strategy for the classroom
The research was developed from the perspective of the qualitative research approach (Minayo, 2002), which has been used in many investigations in mathematics education aimed at analysing the processes of teaching and learning
We presented here the concept of creative feedback, which can be treated as a strategy the teacher can adopt in the classroom to foster students’ creativity skill
Summary
The complexity of modern life and the challenges for sustainable and inclusive development require new skills to treat contemporary problems properly. The development of adaptability becomes relevant today, as machines evolve more and more Regarding adaptations, they tend to require a higher level of education or more time for activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive abilities, and other skills that are relatively difficult to automate, i.e., the “demand for higher cognitive skills will grow moderately overall, but will rise sharply for some of these skills, especially creativity” They tend to require a higher level of education or more time for activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive abilities, and other skills that are relatively difficult to automate, i.e., the “demand for higher cognitive skills will grow moderately overall, but will rise sharply for some of these skills, especially creativity” We suggest research on critical thinking development through creative feedback and creative peer feedback for further investigations
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