Thinking Skills and Creativity

Article	Citations
Theoretical foundations of design thinking – A constructivism learning approach to design thinking	95
Critical, Reflective, Creative Thinking and Their Reflections on Academic Achievement	69
Applying digital escape rooms infused with science teaching in elementary school: Learning performance, learning motivation, and problem-solving ability	69
Developing critical thinking, collective creativity skills and problem solving through playful design jams	55
Mindfulness and creativity: Implications for thinking and learning	54
Technology-enhanced creativity: A multiple case study of digital technology-integration expert teachers’ beliefs and practices	51
From knowledge and skills to digital works: An application of design thinking in the information technology course	47
Perceived teacher support and creative self-efficacy: The mediating roles of autonomous motivation and achievement emotions in Chinese junior high school students	46
Digital storytelling in teacher education and its effect on the digital literacy of pre-service teachers	45
Wellbeing and flow in sports and music students during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
Effects of creative thinking, psychomotor skills, and creative self-efficacy on engineering design creativity	42
The effect of mind mapping on young children’s critical thinking skills	40
Effects of problem-based learning instructional intervention on critical thinking in higher education: A meta-analysis	39
Mindfulness and happiness and their impact on employee creative performance: Mediating role of creative process engagement	38
Teaching critical thinking through engagement with multiplicity	36
Effects of divergent thinking training on students’ scientific creativity: The impact of individual creative potential and domain knowledge	35
Promoting children’s creative thinking through reading and writing in a cooperative learning classroom	34
Improving 7th-graders’ computational thinking skills through unplugged programming activities: A study on the influence of multiple factors	34
Integrating critical thinking into the classroom: A teacher’s perspective	33
A brainstorming flipped classroom approach for improving students’ learning performance, motivation, teacher-student interaction and creativity in a civics education class	33
The landscape of research on the use of digital game-based learning apps to nurture creativity among young children: A review	32
“Scratch”-ing computational thinking with Arduino: A meta-analysis	32
A cultural perspective to project-based learning and the cultivation of innovative thinking	30
How adolescents develop and implement their ideas? On self-regulation of creative action	30
Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education	30

The Effect of STEM Activities Prepared According to the Design Thinking Model on Preschool Children's Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills	29
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	29
Do parenting styles matter? Perceived dimensions of parenting styles, creative abilities and creative self-beliefs in adolescents	28
Computational thinking skills of gifted and talented students in integrated STEM activities based on the engineering design process: The case of robotics and 3D robot modeling	28
The effect of robotic coding education on preschoolers’ problem solving and creative thinking skills	27
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education	26
The effect of robotics on six graders’ academic achievement, computational thinking skills and conceptual knowledge levels	26
Exploring the relationships between cognitive flexibility, learner autonomy, and reflective thinking	25
The mediating role of critical thinking and cooperativity in the 21st century skills of higher education students	25
Fostering critical thinking in English-as-a-second-language classrooms: Challenges and opportunities	24
A review study about creativity in adolescence: Where is the social context?	23
RETRACTED: Development of creative thinking skills through aesthetic creativity in middle school educational music course	23
Creative Problem Solving in Primary Education: Exploring the Role of Fact Finding, Problem Finding, and Solution Finding across Tasks	23
How creative am I?: Examining judgments and predictors of creative performance	22
Learning to think together: Creativity, interdisciplinary collaboration and epistemic control	22
Sustainability-oriented innovation: Improving problem definition through combined design thinking and systems mapping approaches	22
Fostering creativity as a problem-solving competence through design: Think-Create-Learn, a tool for teachers	22
Development and Validation of the Student-Educator Negotiated Critical Thinking Dispositions Scale (SENCTDS)	22
Thinking outside the box: Turkish EFL teachers’ perceptions of creativity	22
A conceptual proposal and operational definitions of the cognitive processes of complex thinking	22
Exploring the relationship between creative thinking and scientific process skills of preschool children	22
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach	22
Exploring higher education students’ critical thinking skills through content analysis	21
Incorporating Entrepreneurial Practices into STEM Education: Development of Interdisciplinary E-STEM Model in High School in the United Arab Emirates	21
Creativity in interaction: the dynamics of teacher-student interactions during a musical composition task	21
The factorial validity of the Cornell Critical Thinking Tests: A multi-analytic approach	21
Improving self-efficacy and creative self-efficacy to foster creativity and learning in schools	21
The effect of gamification on motivation in the education of pre-service social studies teachers	21
A BIBLIOMETRIC AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL THINKING IN PRIMARY EDUCATION	20
How do English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers perceive and engage with critical thinking: A systematic review from 2010 to 2020	20
On surface and core predictors of real-life creativity	20
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review	19
Contextualization of critical thinking in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic integrative review	19
Gender differences in creative self-efficacy: Findings of mean and variability analyses	18
Critical thinking in the preschool classroom - A systematic literature review	18
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models	18
Developing critical thinking in early childhood through the philosophy of Reggio Emilia	18
A Short Instrument for Measuring Students' Confidence with ‘Key Skills' (SICKS): Development, Validation and Initial Results	17
On the benefits of thinking creatively: Why does creativity training strengthen intercultural sensitivity among children	17
Differences in creativity across Art and STEM students: We are more alike than unalike	17
‘Moving the Kaleidoscope’ to see the effect of creative personality traits on creative thinking dispositions of preservice teachers: The mediating effect of creative learning environments and teachers	17
The critical thinking skills of prospective teachers: Investigating their systematicity, self-confidence and scepticism	17
Dance in Zoom: Using video conferencing tools to develop students' 4C skills and self-efficacy during COVID-19	17
An adaptation of the Critical Thinking Disposition Scale in Spanish youth	17
Striving for better teaching and student creativity development: Linking informal workplace learning and teaching for creativity	17
The impact of media and information literacy on acquiring the critical thinking skill by the educational faculty’s students	17
Student engagement and creative confidence beliefs in higher education	17
Is more time better for divergent thinking? A meta-analysis of the time-on-task effect on divergent thinking	17
Are we thinking critically about critical thinking? Uncovering uncertainties in internationalised higher education	17
The contribution of planning to real-world creativity: The moderating role of agreeableness	17

Collaboration and engagement based coding training to enhance children’s computational thinking self-efficacy	16
Reflective thinking in an EFL Writing course: To what level do portfolios improve reflection in writing?	16
Conflicted epistemic beliefs about teaching for creativity	16
Metacognitive feelings as a source of information in the evaluation and selection of creative ideas	16
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom	15
Development of STEAM activity on nanotechnology to determine basic science process skills and engineering design process for high school students	15
Gamified crowdsourcing in higher education: A theoretical framework and a case study	15
Torrance test of creative thinking-verbal, Arabic version: Measurement invariance and latent mean differences across gender, year of study, and academic major	15
The effects of STEM activities on students’ STEM career interests, motivation, science process skills, science achievement and views	15
Prospective mathematics teachers’ thinking styles and problem-solving skills	15
Enhancing undergraduates’ critical thinking through research engagement: A practitioner research approach	15
Online peer assessment improves learners’ creativity:not only learners’ roles as an assessor or assessee, but also their behavioral sequence matter	15
‘Destroying barriers to critical thinking’ to surge the effect of self-leadership skills on electronic learning styles	15
On critical thinking and content knowledge: A critique of the assumptions of cognitive load theory	15
Online vs. on-campus higher education: Exploring innovation in students' self-reports and students' learning products	15
Disposition toward critical thinking and creative confidence beliefs in higher education students: The mediating role of openness to diversity and challenge	14
Boys benefit more from teacher support: Effects of perceived teacher support on primary students’ creative thinking	14
The impact of visual posts on creative thinking and knowledge building in an online community of educators	14
A study of the effects of a natural virtual environment on creativity during a product design activity	14
RETRACTED: Developing critical thinking skills in a digital educational environment	14
Creative thinking components as tools for reducing prejudice: Evidence from experimental studies on adolescents	14
Developing and sustaining creativity: Creative processes in Canadian junior college teachers	14
RETRACTED: Creative approaches in music teaching: Possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies	14
Autistic and positive schizotypal traits respectively predict better convergent and divergent thinking performance	14
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review	14
A typology of student creativity: creative personal expression, boundary pushing and task achievement	14
The influence of collaborative argument mapping on college students’ critical thinking about contentious arguments	14
Effects of gamified classroom management on the divergent thinking and creative tendency of elementary students	14
RETRACTED: The assessment of critical thinking skills of gifted children before and after taking a critical thinking development course	14
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style	14
An alternative approach for measuring computational thinking: Performance-based platform	13
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia	13
Integration of critical thinking into curriculum: Perspectives of prospective teachers	13
The effect of creative thinking on academic performance: Mechanisms, heterogeneity, and implication	13
Scaffolding students’ critical thinking: A process not an end game	13
Exploring the relationship between creativity and cyberloafing of prospective teachers	13
Development of inductive reasoning in students across school grade levels	13
Intentional questioning to promote thinking and learning	13
The relationship of the quality of creative problem solving stages to overall creativity in engineering students	13
Critical thinking and EFL learners’ performance on textually-explicit, textually-implicit, and script-based reading items	13
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment	13
Digital education tools for critical thinking development	13
A creative classroom for everyone: An introduction to a small ‘c’ creativity framework	12
Studying the effects of visual movement on creativity	12
Psychometric properties of the Actively Open-minded Thinking scale	12
Moderated Mediation Model of the Impact of Autonomous Motivation on Postgraduate Students' Creativity	12
Critical thinking, emotional intelligence and conflict management styles of medical students: A cross-sectional study	12
Exploration of students’ integrative skills developed in the design thinking of a Psychology course	12
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students	12
Educating critical citizens? Portuguese teachers and students’ visions of critical thinking at school	12
Measuring everyday creativity: A Rasch model analysis of the Biographical Inventory of Creative Behaviors (BICB) scale	12
Investigating the impact of a possibility-thinking integrated project-based learning history course on high school students' creativity, learning motivation, and history knowledge	12
Discussion-record-based prediction model for creativity education using clustering methods	12
Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery	12
The Effect of Critical Thinking Embedded English Course Design to The Improvement of Critical Thinking Skills of Secondary School Learners✰	11
Divergent thinking in four-year-old children: An analysis of thinking processes in performing the Alternative Uses Task	11
Fostering creative thinking skills to burst the effect of emotional intelligence on entrepreneurial skills	11
Integrating augmented reality into mathematics teaching and learning and examining its effectiveness	11
Effects of a virtual reality teaching application on engineering design creativity of boys and girls	11
Critical thinking predicts reductions in Spanish physicians' stress levels and promotes fake news detection	11
Understanding teachers' cross-disciplinary collaboration for STEAM education: Building a digital community of practice	11
The effects of the 21st century skills curriculum on the development of students’ creative thinking skills	11
Developing Science Process Skills through Mobile Scientific Inquiry	11
Understanding students’ abstractions in block-based programming environments: A performance based evaluation	11
The linkage cultivation of creative thinking and innovative thinking in dance choreography	11
Be real, open, and creative: How openness to experience and to change mediate the authenticity-creativity association	11
Design Sprint: Enhancing STEAM and engineering education through agile prototyping and testing ideas	11
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation	11
The effect of a scientific board game on improving creative problem solving skills	11
RETRACTED: Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies	10
Fact-Checking Skills And Project-Based Learning About Infodemic And Disinformation	10
Exploring the structure of students’ scientific higher order thinking in science education	10
How reliable and valid are frequency-based originality scores? Evidence from a sample of children and adolescents	10
Metacognitively aware university students exhibit higher creativity and motivation to learn	10
Evaluating scientific reasoning ability: Student performance and the interaction effects between grade level, gender, and academic achievement level	10
The Creative Trait Motivation Scales	10
RETRACTED: Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy	10
Computer-based training in math improves inductive reasoning of 9- to 11-year-old children	10
The impact of musical improvisation on children’s creative thinking	10
How to learn to be creative in design: Architecture students’ perceptions of design, design process, design learning, and their transformations throughout their education	10

Be so creative they can’t ignore you! How can entrepreneurial leader enhance the employee creativity?	10
Meta-analysis of interventions and their effectiveness in students’ scientific creativity	10
A design thinking approach to developing girls’ creative self-efficacy in STEM	10
Investigating creativity-directed tasks in middle school mathematics curricula	10
The structural relationship between accountability felt and responsible teaching in Turkish teachers: The mediating effect of innovative thinking	10
A meeting of mind(sets). Integrating the pedagogy and andragogy of mindsets for leadership development	10
Mapping the taxonomy of critical thinking ability in EFL	9
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges	9
The perception of creativity and creative abilities among general education and special education teachers	9
Design facilitation: A critical review of conceptualisations and constructs	9
Exploring debaters and audiences’ depth of critical thinking and its relationship with their participation in debate activities	9
The influence of parental rearing styles on university students’ critical thinking dispositions: The mediating role of self-esteem	9
RETRACTED: Creative thinking and musical collaboration: Promoting online learning groups for aspiring musicians	9
Design students meet industry players: Feedback and creativity in communities of practice	9
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills	9
Crafting briefs to stimulate creativity in the design studio	9
Nature education: Outdoor learning of map literacy skills and reflective thinking skill towards problem-solving	9
Potential Conditions for Linking Teachers’ Online Informal Learning with Innovative Teaching	9
The bidirectional predictions between primary school students’ STEM and language academic achievements and computational thinking: The moderating role of gender	9
Exploring the relationships of achievement motivation and state anxiety to creative writing performance in English as a foreign language	9
It works…but can we make it easier? A comparison of three subjective scoring indexes in the assessment of divergent thinking	9
A systematic mapping study on teaching and learning Computational Thinking through programming in higher education	9
Effects of social influence on idea selection in creativity workshops	9
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review	9
The effects of teamwork on critical thinking: A serial mediation analysis of the influence of work skills and educational motivation in secondary school students	8
RETRACTED: Do educators need metacognitive skills in today’s educational environment?	8
Convergent thinking and insight problem solving relate to semantic memory network structure	8
Scaffolding the development of creativity from the students’ perspective	8
Preparing pre-service language teachers to teach critical thinking: Can overseas field school experience make a difference?	8
School support for teacher innovation: Mediating effects of teacher self-efficacy and moderating effects of trust	8
Creative potential in flux: The leading role of originality during early adolescent development	8
Influences of virtual reality on design creativity and design thinking	8
Designing a creative storytelling workshop to build self-confidence and trust among adolescents	8
Teachers matter for metacognition: Facilitating metacognition in the primary school through teacher-pupil interactions	8
Associations between happiness, attitudes towards creativity and self-reported creativity in Lithuanian youth sample	8
RETRACTED: Building an online educational platform to promote creative and affective thinking in special education	8
Insight with stumpers: Normative solution data for 25 stumpers and a fresh perspective on the accuracy effect	8
RETRACTED: Critical thinking cultivation in Chinese learning classes for International students during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The use of media technologies in the formation of creativity in future psychological and pedagogical specialists	8
Computational thinking training with technology for non-information undergraduates	8
What characterises creativity in narrative writing, and how do we assess it? Research findings from a systematic literature search	8
Exploring critical and visual literacy needs in digital learning environments: The use of memes in the EFL/ESL university classroom	8
An integrative conceptual model of innovation and innovative thinking based on a synthesis of a literature review	8
Associations between overexcitabilities and playfulness of kindergarten children	8
“Everything comes together”: Students’ collaborative development of a professional dialogic practice in architecture and design education	7
Importance of environmental settings for the temporal dynamics of creativity	7
Developmental activities in the acquisition of creativity in soccer players	7
Active versus Passive Strategy in Online Creativity Training: How to Best Promote Creativity of Students with Different Cognitive Styles?	7
Teaching strategies for value-loaded critical thinking in philosophy classroom dialogues	7
Affective state contributes to creative self-efficacy: Evidence from an experimental study of emotion induction	7
The influence of social capital on primary school teachers' creative teaching behavior: Mediating effects of knowledge sharing and creative teaching self-efficacy	7
Visualising trends in computational thinking research from 2012 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis	7
Creativity in children as play and humour: Indicators of affective processes of creativity	7
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers	7
Early childhood teachers making multiliterate learning environments: The emergence of a spatial design thinking process	7
How should undergraduate students perceive knowledge as a product of human creation? Insights from a study on epistemic beliefs, intellectual risk-taking, and creativity	7
Relations of computational thinking to reasoning ability and creative thinking in young children: Mediating role of arithmetic fluency	7
Is the Text-Based Cognitive Tool More Effective Than the Concept Map on Improving the Pre-Service Teachers’ Argumentation Skills?	7
An embedded mixed method study on teaching algebraic expressions using metacognition-based training	7
Team growth mindset and team scientific creativity of college students: The role of team achievement goal orientation and leader behavioral feedback	7
Toward a system model of improvisation	7
Multiple representations and mathematical creativity	7
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of divergent thinking measures	7
Negative ideation in creative problem-solving is task-specific too: Evidences from a sample of incarcerated juveniles	7
Creativity from constraints: Theory and applications to education	7
Distinguishing the three versions of the Chinese Remote Associates Test based on default mode network connectivity	7
RETRACTED: Exploring children’s well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons	7
Thinking critically through controversial issues on digital media: Dispositions and key criteria for content evaluation	7
Transferability of creative self-belief across domains:The differential effects of a creativity course for university students	7
Team effectiveness in creative problem solving: Examining the role of students’ motivational beliefs and task analyses in team performance	6
Promoting creativity: Secondary visual art teachers’ perceptions and understanding of creativity in Ghana	6
Beyond originality in scientific research: Considering relations among originality, novelty, and ecological thinking	6
Test of scientific creativity animations for children: Development and validity study	6
How do Chinese students’ critical thinking compare with other students?: A structured review of the existing evidence	6
A componential model of Science Classroom Creativity (SCC) for understanding collective creativity in the science classroom	6
Computational thinking: A mediation tool and higher-order thinking for linking EFL grammar knowledge with competency	6
The relationship between the mathematical reasoning skills and video game addiction of Turkish middle schools students: A serial mediator model	6
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China	6
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	6
Pedagogical potential of SWOT analysis: An approach to teaching critical thinking	6
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer	6
Are Creative People Better than Others at Recognizing Creative Work?	6
Investigating the effects of a systematic and model-based design of computer-supported argument visualization on critical thinking	6
The relationship between the motor creativity and peer play behaviors of preschool children and the factors affecting this relationship	6
Measuring individual and group flow in collaborative improvisational dance	6
Developing reflective engineers through an arts-incorporated graduate course: A curriculum inquiry	6
Development of an instrument to assess young people's attitudes toward critical thinking	6
RETRACTED: The development of a systems mindset in the first-year students studying online at a vocational pedagogical university while mastering the basics of working with digital technologies	6
RETRACTED: The influence of choral practices and passive listening to music on creative thinking	6
Enhancing student creativity through an interdisciplinary, project-oriented problem-based learning undergraduate curriculum	6
Assessing Indonesian student inductive reasoning: Rasch analysis	6
How Figurativity of Analogy Affects Creativity: The Application of Four-Term Analogies to Teaching for Creativity	6
Technology-Enhanced CT: A Systematic Review	6
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	6
STEM without art: A ship without a sail	6