ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the meaning of education and life and how assessment can help one find answers to such big questions. It introduces ideas about formative assessment – seeking to measure the connections between children's experience of education and their present and future lives beyond it. The chapter focuses on assessing creativity and cross-curricular approaches. It asks why affirmation, authentic experience, transferability, connectivity, collaboration and shared human values should be important factors in such assessments. In presenting a 'performance' approach to assessment, it offers practical advice linking assessment with the planning and delivery of a connecting, relevant and meaningful curriculum. The chapter offers a deliberately humanistic approach to measuring what is important in education, perhaps more appropriate for a book on creativity. It offers guidance on how one can collect evidence on the degree of creativity and of connectivity in a child's experience.
