One of the objectives of modernization of education is to improve the process of assessment, including assessment on creative specialties.
For the development of creativity, you must learn first of all to see things in a new perspective, that is, for example, to search for unusual ways of applying the usual things. In this case you reveal the ability to create and this gives a strong impetus for further development of creativity.
Along with a view on creativity as a universal feature of the human personality, there are also areas of activity, where it is necessary to be a creative person. These are professions an actor, musician, painter, architect, designer, etc. It is not enough to be a «good specialist». You must be a creator rather than artisan, even the most skilled.
In high schools of Azerbaijan we also have faculties on creative specialties. Admission to higher educational institutions of Azerbaijan is implemented by the State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) - the main agency conducting the test examinations as well as the examinations for creative specialties.
Here conditionally creative specialties are grouped in five directions. Among them are visual arts, music, architecture and design, theater, cinema and choreographic art, physical education and sport.
Different types of work or scope of activity make different demands to the level of artistic competence of students choosing these specialties.
Creativity is not a competition because there are not objective criteria for evaluating the soul of the creator. When a person truly creates, he seeks the best way to convey his state of mind.
That is why it is too difficult to evaluate the creative competence of applicants by common methods of estimation.
We will discuss the technology of assessment during the entrance examinations developed and carried out by SSAC (Azerbaijan) for creative specialties.