Creative minds in action

Recognising the importance of developing creativity in education, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an assessment of creative thinking for the first time in its 2022 cycle – with the results summarised in the PISA 2022 Results (Volume III) report. While that report focused on comparing countries’ performance on the test and examining how performance related to student and school factors, it did not explore the rich information in students’ ideas to unpack the different ways in which students around the world can think creatively. In this report, we take a deeper dive into the minds of students to examine their creative potential and analyse the content of creative responses across select countries and economies. In particular, we examine what kinds of creative ideas 15-year-old students around the world have in response to different tasks, and we explore how even the most underprivileged students are capable of thinking creatively.