Development and evaluation of creative abilities of students in the classroom in the conditions of digitalization of continuing education

the article presents the approach to solving the problem of creative development of schoolchildren and assessment under conditions of digitalization of continuing education. Based on the material of teaching to a school chemistry course the authors consider a computerized method for organizing student creative activities at chemistry lessons as well as continuous evaluation of the results of their creative development when they perform subject-specific creative tasks in chemistry. The article describes in detail the psychological and pedagogical foundations and specific methodological procedures such as criteria and formulas for continuous quantitative assessment of student creative development using the «Creo Datum» computer program developed by the authors of the article. The organizational part of the implementation of the «Creo Datum» program involves the possibility to use both student personal computers and smartphones. The article explains how this network interface allows students to log in the digital system and receive creative assigments, the progress and results of which are recorded in digital devices. Almost simultaneously, the «Creo Datum» digital system automatically makes the necessary calculations and outputs the processed results for an instructor and each student individually. The article provides for visualization examples for the results and process of student creative development based on a quantitative assessment of such creative thinking parameters as divergence and convergence. As a result, the authors emphasize that the «Creo Datum» computer program allows the teacher, to carry out both the organization of student creative development and continuous automated monitoring of key parameters both for individual students and for all the classes without disrupting the course of the educational process in the standard educational chemistry program on the subject.