Evaluating Children’s Creativity Through Drawing: Designing and Validating an Assessment Tool for Originality

The purpose of this study is to design an assessment tool for measuring the originality dimension of children’s creativity through their drawings. The tool was developed based on in-depth interviews with 9 experts, whose feedback led to the identification of the core dimensions and scoring criteria. The tool evaluates children’s drawings across four key dimensions: creativity, number of details, color usage, and composition complexity, to assess the originality of their creativity. To assess the effectiveness of the tool, an experimental method was employed, using pre- and post-assessments of 23 children in the experimental group and 21 children in the control group during nature play activities. Changes in children’s originality were measured through these assessments, with drawings evaluated across the four dimensions. The results indicate that the tool effectively captures changes in children’s originality, providing strong support for fostering creativity in early childhood education and offering practical implications for real educational settings.