Creative giftedness is a high potential to produce ideas or products that are both novel and appropriate. Despite its growing recognition (e.g., in PISA assessments), schools face barriers like a lack of teacher training, a culture of testing that discourages risk-taking, and difficulties in identifying creatively gifted students. Overall, this field views creative giftedness as a complex, dynamic, and vital potential that requires a concerted, informed effort from the educational system to develop the competencies needed in the 21st century.
BaccassinoF.PinnelliS. (2023). Giftedness and gifted education: A systematic literature review. Frontiers in Education, 7, 1073007. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1073007
2.
BesançonM.LubartT.BarbotB. (2013). Creative giftedness and educational opportunities. Educational and Child Psychology, 30(2), 79–88. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2013.30.2.79
3.
DechaumeM.MercierM.FeybesseC.LubartT.ChouvelonG.KermarrecS.TordjmanS. (2024). Is intelligence necessary and sufficient for creativity? An analysis of convergent and divergent thinking. Learning and Individual Differences, 116, Article 102575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102575
JaukE.BenedekM.DunstB.NeubauerA. C. (2013). The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection. Intelligence, 41(4), 212–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2013.03.003
KaufmanJ. C. (2009). Creative giftedness: Beginnings, developments, and future promises. In ShavininaL. V. (Ed.), International handbook of giftedness and talent (pp. 597–608). Sense Publishers.
9.
KaufmanJ. C.BeghettoR. A. (2009). Beyond big and little: The four c model of creativity. Review of General Psychology, 13(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013688
10.
KimK. H. (2008). Underachievement and creativity: Are gifted underachievers highly creative?Creativity Research Journal, 20(2), 234–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400410802060232
OECD (2025a, May). Creative minds in action: Students’ imagination and ideas in storytelling, design and problem solving tasks on the PISA test. OECD Education Policy Perspectives, No. 120, OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/5b718eb2-en
13.
OECD (2025b, November). Seven questions about creativity and creative thinking: What do PISA 2022 data tell us? PISA. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/0aa52128-en
14.
ReisS. M.RenzulliJ. S. (2021). Enrichment and gifted education pedagogy to develop talents, gifts, and creative productivity. Education Sciences, 11(10), 615. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11100615
15.
RenzulliJ. S. (1978). What makes giftedness? Reexamining a definition. Phi Delta Kappan, 60, 180–184.
16.
RenzulliJ. S. (1986). The three-ring conception of giftedness. A developmental model for creative productivity. In SternbergR. J.DavidsonJ. E. (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness (pp. 53–92). Cambridge University Press.
SternbergR. J.LubartT. I. (1993). Creative giftedness: A multivariate investment approach. Gifted Child Quarterly, 37(1), 7–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/001698629303700102
20.
SternbergR. J.LubartT. I. (1995). Defying the crowd: Cultivating creativity in a culture of conformity. Free Press.
21.
TannenbaumA. J. (1986). Giftedness: A psychosocial approach. In SternbergR. J.DavidsonJ. E. (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness (pp. 21–52). Cambridge University Press.
22.
Vincent-LancrinS.González-SanchoC.BouckaertM.De LucaF.Fernández-BarrerraM.JacotinG.VidalQ. (2019). Fostering students’ creativity and critical thinking: What it means in school. Educational Research and Innovation. OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/62212c37-en
