An Analytical Rubric for Assessing Creativity in Creative Writing

Assessment is a crucial component of teaching creative writing. However, the discipline lags far behind its composition and literary counterparts to develop a plausible method for evaluating creativity. Therefore, after reviewing the past and current literature on the topic, this study describes the design and implementation of an analytical rubric which encompasses four major qualities of creative language (image, characterization, voice and story). The reliability and validity of the proposed rubric are also empirically evaluated. The result reveals that the rubric provides the sufficient reliability and validity value reported in the literature for rubrics. Besides, the article includes some sample analyses to explicate its application.