Through Game Design, its newest merit badge, the Boy Scouts of America is opening the door for Scouts to put their creativity to the test.

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In a test of creativity, researchers asked 145 students to think of as many unusual uses as possible for such common items as a brick or toothpick, then divided them randomly into four groups.

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The researchers ranked students on a widely used measure called the Torrance Test of Creativity, which involves such tasks as drawing an "interesting and exciting" picture from a curved shape on a sheet of paper, giving the picture a title, and then writing a story about it.

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When students were given creativity tests, those whose test-cover pages had a green background gave more creative answers than those whose pages were white, blue, red or gray.

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And we should grant our educators the flexibility to teach with creativity and passion in the classroom and not just teaching to the test.

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Chinese parents who rock the Tiger Mother style still cling to the remnants of the Old World by expecting obedience above all else and stifling true creativity in favor of tried and true benchmarks of success: Perfect grades, best test scores, admission into top colleges.

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According to Dr. Andreas Schleicher who was in charge of the test, you can not do well , if you lack critical thinking which is essential to creativity.

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