Thinking Skills and Creativity

Article	Citations
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	158
Musical thinking problems	156
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	114
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	100
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	96
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	94
Development of preservice teachers’ inquiry thinking skills: Unpacking the processes and challenges	92
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	91
Origami-based collaborative spatial problem-solving: Multimodal observational study	91
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	89
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	87
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	77
Retraction notice to “The role of creative musical activity in learning foreign languagesThe role of creative musical activity in learning foreign languages” [ Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41	77
Retraction notice to ``Interdisciplinary approaches to arts education: Exploring the link between creative thinking and mastering exact sciences'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2	64
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	61
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	61
What does creativity look like in preschool? A multi-method examination of unity and diversity in preschoolers’ creativity	60
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	55
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	54
Design knowledge scaffolds to facilitate students’ probabilistic thinking skills for solving classical probability problems: An exploratory study	54
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	53
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	52
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	52
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	50
Emotion and cognition are two wings of the same bird: Insights into academic emotion regulation, critical thinking, self-efficacy beliefs, academic resilience, and academic engagement in Iranian EFL c	50

Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	49
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	48
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	48
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation	48
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices	46
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items	45
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	45
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools	44
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review	44
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students	44
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers	44
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	43
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners	43
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	43
Can creative musical and mathematical thinking be developed among first and second graders?	42
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students	42
Retraction notice to ``The role of innovative approaches in teaching the flute: A path to creative realization of students'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2021, 100959]	41
Exploring the emotional interaction of emergent roles in collaborative argumentation with multidimensional and fine-grained analysis	40
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS	40
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus	40
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	39
Exploring the impact of diverse feedback sources on learners’ performance, motivation, and preference in a translation course: Tutor, peer, and GPT insight	38
From algorithms to artistry: Promoting high school students’ creativity through interdisciplinary integration of creative coding and smart design	35
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers	33
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach	33
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students	33
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability	32
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience	31
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review	31
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research	31
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study	30
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study	30
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis	30
The effects of game design on students’ creative performance in video game environments	29
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors	29
Pre-service biology teachers as developers of mobile augmented reality teaching materials: Enhancing, not replacing, science practices and connections with the natural environment	29
Assessing novel techniques to promote creative cognition: Imaginative recategorization and context-dependent property generation	29
Impact of a systematically designed computer-supported argument visualization tutorial on the skill of argument analysis	29
Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance	28
Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills	28
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”	28
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">	28
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education	28
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program	28
Exploring the effects of interactive digital picture books on elementary students' creativity	28
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">	28
The effort heuristic in little-c evaluations: An effort-derogation effect	27
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review	27
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving	27
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity	26

The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda	26
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts	26
Failing together: Interactive patterns of problem-solving between youth and educators in informal stem environments	26
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models	26
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research	26
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?	26
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia	26
Exploring the impact of hypotheticality on students’ argumentation in online gamified learning environment	26
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students	26
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills	25
Critical thinking in higher education: Identifying the pedagogical practices and modes of engagement	25
Engagement predicts computational thinking skills in unplugged activity: Analysis of gender differences	24
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others	24
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer	24
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality	24
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds	24
An Analysis of Gifted and Non-Gifted Fifth Graders’ Strategic Flexibility	24
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences	24
The relationships between Chinese teachers’ emotions, professional identity, and teaching for creativity: The mediating role of emotional intelligence	24
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications	23
The effects of a three-dimensional virtual learning medium on spatial ability and learning achievement in the anatomical sciences	23
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score	23
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education	23
Academic buoyancy and self-regulated learning among doctoral students: The mediating roles of creativity-generating research styles	23
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach	23
Corrigendum to “Exploring the emotional interaction of emergent roles in collaborative argumentation with multidimensional and fine-grained analysis” [Thinking Skills and Creativity 58 (2025) /TSC 101	23
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design	22
The Mad-genius controversy: Estimating the creativity of suicide poets via a dual model	22
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation	22
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis	22
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit	22
Compositional tools based on artificial intelligence for choral artistic education: Enhancing creative skills in choral arrangements	22
Pseudo-creativity and authentic creativity differ in conceptual boundaries	22
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates	22
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)	22
Enhancing primary students’ language creativity through reading book-length fairy tale fiction in a computer-enriched environment	21
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions	21
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices	21
Trainee translators’ reflective thinking across assessment as learning activities: An epistemic network analysis approach	21
Factors influencing scientific reasoning ability in junior secondary students: Examining gender and grade-level predictive differences	21
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension	21
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study	21
The inner mechanism of creativity advantages of Southeast Asian-Taiwanese bicultural children: The mediating roles of shyness and shame	21
Fostering Critical Thinking and Argumentative Writing in EFL Learners: A Collaborative Reading-Based Creative Writing Approach	20
Extracting the actions of contextual understanding in STEAM research: Direction for STEAM course design	20
Academic performance and creative development of education-degree students who participate in artistic activities	20
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players	20
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking	20
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information	20
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts	20
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective	20
Characterizing social problem-solving skills in STEAM activities among preschool children enacting different social positions	20
The resonances of innovation: Orchestrating a guqin course with the systems model of creativity and a creativity educational model development	20
Retraction notice to ``Steal like an artist: Connection between critical thinking and creativity of a future musician in a digital environment'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 202	19
Embedding 21st-Century Competencies into Higher Education: Insights from Vietnamese Lecturers’ Perspectives and Pedagogical Strategies	19
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation	19
Survey on the influential demographic factors of Chinese undergraduate students’ critical thinking disposition: Evidence from plausible values	19
Relative age effect in creativity development: A longitudinal investigation	19
Comparative study of codecombat-based python programming and scratch programming effects on sixth graders' Computational thinking: interaction effects of gender and programming experience	19
Reasoning skills or creativity: Which is more important in complex problem-solving?	19
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers	19
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style	19
Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing	19
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education	18
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality	18
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review	18
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills	18
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course	18
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)	18
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers	18
Exploring the effect of cooperative learning on senior high school students’ critical thinking in EFL writing: An intervention study	18
Modeling system dynamics in computational thinking integration using causal loop diagrams	18
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 2022	18
Long in the tooth for creativity? Differences in divergent thinking between young and older adults	18
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?	17
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges	17
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education	17
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">	17
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador	17
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking	17

Retraction notice to ``The effectiveness of reflective dialogue in the development of reflective thinking in rising teachers'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100902]	17
Development of a digital Creative Figural Design Test (CFDT): An approach to integrating divergent and convergent processes	17
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics	16
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates	16
The relationship between creative self-concept and activities of Japanese junior high and high school students: A two-year longitudinal study	16
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation	16
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers	16
Creative mindsets are malleable: Effects of “born this way” messages and different definitions of creativity	16
Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English	16
How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility	16
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance	16
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education	16
Creative coursework and college students’ perceptions: Examining creative self-efficacy, creative personal identity, and intrinsic task motivation	16
Unraveling the creative mind: The role of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in creativity	16
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China	16
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving	16
Cultural creative processes supported by collaborative stimulation: A card-based toolkit for team interaction rules incorporation	16
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language	15
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment	15
Retrieval bias and policy judgment: A cognitive perspective on principals and teachers' evaluations	15
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study	15
Exploring creative thinking skills and creativity in English courses through the lenses of creative pedagogy in two continuum IB schools	15
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of a translator: Expanding the practice of using and editing machine translation” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 43, March 2022, 100995]	15
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review	15
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history	15
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase	15
The influence of preschool teachers’ critical thinking attitude on their perceived ease of understanding and integrating, and attitude toward implementation of a new curriculum	15
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas	14
Innovative STEAM teaching through linocut printmaking	14
Computer-based interactive training in nature-based environmental education: Impact on conservation behaviours, social behaviours, and lower and higher order thinking skills	14
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables	14
Unlocking creative potential: The role of creative mindset on creativity	14
Editorial Board	14
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language	14
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience	14
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings	14
Fostering critical thinkers and future designers: Design fiction pedagogy in AI education	14
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study	14
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.	14
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows	14
Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality	14
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children	13
Measuring early engineering interest: A scale for kindergarteners	13
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy	13
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments	13
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals	13
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction	13
Comparative experiment of the effects of unplugged and plugged-in programming on computational thinking in primary school students: A perspective of multiple influential factors	13
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning	13
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity	13
From logs to insights: Exploring domains of creativity in data analytics tasks	13
Examining the effect of primary education thinking skills curriculum on the creative thinking abilities of gifted female students	13
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students	13
Factors influencing attitudes and behavioral intentions toward GenAI in creative collaboration: A cross-cultural comparison via a hybrid multistage approach	13
A systematic review of factors influencing K-12 teachers’ creative teaching across different forms: An ecological perspective	12
The role of a designed problem-solving method with metacognitive scaffolding on students’ conceptual change learning and teachers’ instructional practices in Biology	12
Exploring creativity's complex relationship with learning in early elementary students	12
Mapping the neural mechanisms of creativity by convergent and divergent thinking in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	12
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review	12
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China	12
Examining the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward risky play and children's motor creativity skills	12
Cross-cultural comparison of creative thinking in mathematics textbooks: A case study of high school mathematics textbooks in China, Japan, and South Korea	12
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils	12
Fusing Six-Hat thinking with AI: How the Green Hat and ChatGPT Co-Regulate pre-service teachers' instructional design—insights from epistemic network analysis	12
Towards developing a critical learning skills framework for master's students: Evidence from a UK university	12
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education	12
Personality correlates of motivation in the art and science domains: the bright- and dark-side trait perspective	12
Mediation effect of scientific competency on relationship between inductive reasoning and domain-general and domain-specific problem solving	12
A “light bulb moment”: Lab experiments enhancing novelty and critical thinking designed by future teachers	12
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education	12
Virtual reality in P-12 education for improving presence, immersion, and 4C skills: A systematic review of empirical research	12
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity	12
Canvas and quill: Improving students' creativity and writing composition through creative painting diary	11
The mediating effects of critical thinking on the motivation and creativity of Business English learners in the age of AI: Cognitive flexibility theory	11
Critical thinking in the cultural components of EFL textbooks: CCR model and its application	11
How to set up a formal Design Thinking course that works? A practical guide for higher education settings	11
Teaching holistic environmental thought: A classroom approach	11
Influence of manipulating pitch size and game format in small-sided soccer games on tactical creativity and exploratory behavior of young players	11
Exploring the effects of scaffolded reflective learning on student teachers' design performance and reflective thinking	11
“Viewing puzzles as two-faced: theoretical and practical implications for Puzzle-based Learning”	11
From creativity to the creative student, an evolutionary analysis of social representations among future teachers	11
Parenting behavior and creativity: Multiple mediating effects of openness to experience and creative self-efficacy and genetic moderation of effects	11
Framed thinking. Can we rewire our minds?	11
Comparisons of convergent thinking: A perspective informed by culture and neural mechanisms	11
Corrigendum to ‘Linking creativity myths and facts to creative teaching behavioral intentions: The role of creative mindsets in pre-service teachers’ [Thinking Skills and Creativity 61 (2026) 102156]	11
Unplugged activities in the elementary school mathematics classroom: The effects on students’ computational thinking and mathematical creativity	11
Correlation between idea generation effort and resulting design solution success: An empirical study using RNEV as a new assessment technique	11
Creativity knowledge of classroom teachers: Predictors and correlates	11
Release from (creative) proactive inhibition: Can we manipulate divergent thinking the same as memory?	11
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Creative thinking for learning algebra: Year 10 students’ problem solving and problem posing with quadratic figural patterns	10
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The effect of risk-taking tendency on student creative problem-solving skills: The moderating role of perceived teacher support for creativity	10
Does unconscious processing benefit creative problem-solving, especially when people have been misdirected?	10
Structured diary introspection training: A kind of critical thinking training method can enhance the Pro-C creativity of interior designers	10