Thinking Skills and Creativity

Papers
(The median citation count of Thinking Skills and Creativity is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity128
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample120
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education91
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 4181
Toward a system model of improvisation79
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]78
Editorial Board76
Musical thinking problems75
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom73
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”72
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>71
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 266
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>58
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding55
Design knowledge scaffolds to facilitate students’ probabilistic thinking skills for solving classical probability problems: An exploratory study55
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 c54
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings52
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs49
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools49
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function47
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory47
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills47
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health47
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership46
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment45
Origami-based collaborative spatial problem-solving: Multimodal observational study43
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework43
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy43
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation43
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners42
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self42
From algorithms to artistry: Promoting high school students’ creativity through interdisciplinary integration of creative coding and smart design39
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices38
Exploring the emotional interaction of emergent roles in collaborative argumentation with multidimensional and fine-grained analysis38
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers38
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus38
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]38
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students37
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students37
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items36
Can creative musical and mathematical thinking be developed among first and second graders?36
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers36
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review36
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS35
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research35
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students35
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools34
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices34
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method33
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach32
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience31
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students30
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review30
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability29
Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance28
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study28
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”28
The effort heuristic in little-c evaluations: An effort-derogation effect28
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">27
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study27
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">26
Assessing novel techniques to promote creative cognition: Imaginative recategorization and context-dependent property generation26
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program26
Exploring the effects of interactive digital picture books on elementary students' creativity25
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis25
Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills25
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving25
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors25
Impact of a systematically designed computer-supported argument visualization tutorial on the skill of argument analysis25
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research24
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review24
The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda23
Failing together: Interactive patterns of problem-solving between youth and educators in informal stem environments23
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models23
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer23
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education23
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia23
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students23
Engagement predicts computational thinking skills in unplugged activity: Analysis of gender differences22
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?22
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality22
The relationships between Chinese teachers’ emotions, professional identity, and teaching for creativity: The mediating role of emotional intelligence22
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score22
RETRACTED: Critical thinking of a translator: Expanding the practice of using and editing machine translation22
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills21
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts21
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds21
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences21
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach21
An Analysis of Gifted and Non-Gifted Fifth Graders’ Strategic Flexibility21
The Mad-genius controversy: Estimating the creativity of suicide poets via a dual model20
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education20
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others20
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices20
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications20
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates20
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity20
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension19
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design19
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit19
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study19
The effects of a three-dimensional virtual learning medium on spatial ability and learning achievement in the anatomical sciences19
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players19
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions19
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 10119
The inner mechanism of creativity advantages of Southeast Asian-Taiwanese bicultural children: The mediating roles of shyness and shame19
Factors influencing scientific reasoning ability in junior secondary students: Examining gender and grade-level predictive differences18
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)18
Enhancing primary students’ language creativity through reading book-length fairy tale fiction in a computer-enriched environment18
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information18
Trainee translators’ reflective thinking across assessment as learning activities: An epistemic network analysis approach18
Academic buoyancy and self-regulated learning among doctoral students: The mediating roles of creativity-generating research styles18
The resonances of innovation: Orchestrating a guqin course with the systems model of creativity and a creativity educational model development18
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation17
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking17
Compositional tools based on artificial intelligence for choral artistic education: Enhancing creative skills in choral arrangements17
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis17
Effects of nature virtual backgrounds on creativity during videoconferencing17
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)17
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts17
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective17
Reasoning skills or creativity: Which is more important in complex problem-solving?17
Assessing the critical thinking skills of English language learners in a first year psychology course16
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 20216
Extracting the actions of contextual understanding in STEAM research: Direction for STEAM course design16
Exploring the effect of cooperative learning on senior high school students’ critical thinking in EFL writing: An intervention study16
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation16
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality16
Characterizing social problem-solving skills in STEAM activities among preschool children enacting different social positions16
Relative age effect in creativity development: A longitudinal investigation16
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course16
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 202216
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers16
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education16
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education16
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers16
Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing15
Cultural creative processes supported by collaborative stimulation: A card-based toolkit for team interaction rules incorporation15
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills15
Exploring the connection between playfulness and learning: Making learning memorable in a culturally and economically diverse grade 5 classroom15
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review15
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style15
Survey on the influential demographic factors of Chinese undergraduate students’ critical thinking disposition: Evidence from plausible values15
Long in the tooth for creativity? Differences in divergent thinking between young and older adults15
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking15
Comparative study of codecombat-based python programming and scratch programming effects on sixth graders' Computational thinking: interaction effects of gender and programming experience15
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">14
The relationship between creative self-concept and activities of Japanese junior high and high school students: A two-year longitudinal study14
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation14
Unraveling the creative mind: The role of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in creativity14
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education14
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics14
Creative coursework and college students’ perceptions: Examining creative self-efficacy, creative personal identity, and intrinsic task motivation14
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China14
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers14
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review14
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment14
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance14
Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English14
Development of a digital Creative Figural Design Test (CFDT): An approach to integrating divergent and convergent processes14
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language14
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]14
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study14
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving14
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?14
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates13
Exploring creative thinking skills and creativity in English courses through the lenses of creative pedagogy in two continuum IB schools13
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals13
How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility13
Creative mindsets are malleable: Effects of “born this way” messages and different definitions of creativity13
Retrieval bias and policy judgment: A cognitive perspective on principals and teachers' evaluations13
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase13
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges13
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador13
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history13
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience12
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children12
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction12
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]12
Editorial Board12
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study12
From logs to insights: Exploring domains of creativity in data analytics tasks12
The influence of preschool teachers’ critical thinking attitude on their perceived ease of understanding and integrating, and attitude toward implementation of a new curriculum12
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments12
An exploratory investigation into EFL teacher educators’ approaches to develop EFL teachers’ ability to teach for creativity12
Innovative STEAM teaching through linocut printmaking12
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows12
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings12
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language12
Examining the effect of primary education thinking skills curriculum on the creative thinking abilities of gifted female students12
Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality12
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China12
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity12
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students12
RETRACTED: Studying creativity and critical thinking skills at university and students' future income12
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning12
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas12
Computer-based interactive training in nature-based environmental education: Impact on conservation behaviours, social behaviours, and lower and higher order thinking skills12
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables11
Personality correlates of motivation in the art and science domains: the bright- and dark-side trait perspective11
Canvas and quill: Improving students' creativity and writing composition through creative painting diary11
A systematic review of factors influencing K-12 teachers’ creative teaching across different forms: An ecological perspective11
Mediation effect of scientific competency on relationship between inductive reasoning and domain-general and domain-specific problem solving11
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy11
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education11
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review11
Towards developing a critical learning skills framework for master's students: Evidence from a UK university11
Virtual reality in P-12 education for improving presence, immersion, and 4C skills: A systematic review of empirical research11
Cross-cultural comparison of creative thinking in mathematics textbooks: A case study of high school mathematics textbooks in China, Japan, and South Korea11
Unlocking creative potential: The role of creative mindset on creativity11
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.11
Comparative experiment of the effects of unplugged and plugged-in programming on computational thinking in primary school students: A perspective of multiple influential factors11
Corpus-assisted counterargumentation instruction: cultivating critical thinking via argumentative writing11
Developmental trends of different creative potentials in relation to adolescents’ critical thinking abilities11
Critical thinking in the cultural components of EFL textbooks: CCR model and its application11
Mapping the neural mechanisms of creativity by convergent and divergent thinking in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study11
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity11
A “light bulb moment”: Lab experiments enhancing novelty and critical thinking designed by future teachers10
The mediating effects of critical thinking on the motivation and creativity of Business English learners in the age of AI: Cognitive flexibility theory10
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils10
Teaching holistic environmental thought: A classroom approach10
Exploring creativity's complex relationship with learning in early elementary students10
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education10
Unplugged activities in the elementary school mathematics classroom: The effects on students’ computational thinking and mathematical creativity10
How to set up a formal Design Thinking course that works? A practical guide for higher education settings10
Gamification and problem-based learning (PBL): Development of creativity in the teaching-learning process of mathematics in university students10
Examining the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward risky play and children's motor creativity skills10
“Viewing puzzles as two-faced: theoretical and practical implications for Puzzle-based Learning”10
Exploring the effects of scaffolded reflective learning on student teachers' design performance and reflective thinking10
Parenting behavior and creativity: Multiple mediating effects of openness to experience and creative self-efficacy and genetic moderation of effects10
Empowering students'engineering thinking: An empirical study of integrating engineering into science class at junior secondary schools10
Effects of ability grouping on students’ collaborative problem solving patterns: Evidence from lag sequence analysis and epistemic network analysis9
Does unconscious processing benefit creative problem-solving, especially when people have been misdirected?9
Retraction notice to “Developing critical thinking skills in a digital educational environment” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100906]9
RETRACTED: Using mobile apps in vocal training to develop creative thinking9
Structured diary introspection training: A kind of critical thinking training method can enhance the Pro-C creativity of interior designers9
Release from (creative) proactive inhibition: Can we manipulate divergent thinking the same as memory?9
What does it take to be original? An exploration of mathematical problem solving9
Creativity knowledge of classroom teachers: Predictors and correlates9
A study on the relationship between student' learning engagements and higher-order thinking skills in programming learning9
Editorial Board9
An AI-based learning style prediction model for personalized and effective learning9
ChatGPT: The brightest student in the class9
Correlation between idea generation effort and resulting design solution success: An empirical study using RNEV as a new assessment technique9
On critical thinking and content knowledge: A critique of the assumptions of cognitive load theory9
Potential Conditions for Linking Teachers’ Online Informal Learning with Innovative Teaching9
A longitudinal inquiry into L2 students’ emotions in project-based collaborative writing9
Creative thinking for learning algebra: Year 10 students’ problem solving and problem posing with quadratic figural patterns9
From creativity to the creative student, an evolutionary analysis of social representations among future teachers9
Comparisons of convergent thinking: A perspective informed by culture and neural mechanisms9
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