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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding86
Editorial Board71
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity61
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample58
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>54
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]53
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function52
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom51
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 249
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings48
Musical thinking problems47
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 4146
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation45
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”44
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>44
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth44
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century44
Toward a system model of improvisation43
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course43
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills41
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy38
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework37
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking35
Effects of cloud-based learning on student’s engineering design creativity with different creative self-efficacy35
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership35
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory35
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom33
The relationship between the mathematical reasoning skills and video game addiction of Turkish middle schools students: A serial mediator model33
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 c32
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment32
Intentional questioning to promote thinking and learning31
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS31
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools31
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students31
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation31
Fostering creative thinking in the family: The importance of parenting styles31
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers31
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers31
A study of the effects of a natural virtual environment on creativity during a product design activity31
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience30
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research30
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach30
RETRACTED: Choreographic art features: Creative concepts and innovations in teaching29
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]29
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students28
Perception of social problems among young people Characteristics of social innovation knowledge potential28
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review27
School support for teacher innovation: Mediating effects of teacher self-efficacy and moderating effects of trust27
Editorial Board27
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners27
Technology-Enhanced CT: A Systematic Review27
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students26
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices26
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review26
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self26
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education25
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study25
RETRACTED: Creative thinking as a driver for students’ transition to university 4.0 model25
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis25
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices25
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving24
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research24
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review24
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program24
RETRACTED: Creative thinking and musical collaboration: Promoting online learning groups for aspiring musicians23
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">23
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”23
Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance23
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">23
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors22
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study22
The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda21
RETRACTED: The wheel of science: A model for managing scientific activities in higher education as a factor in developing flexible skills of the youth in the region21
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia21
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models21
Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills21
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills20
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?20
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality20
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts20
Exploration of students’ integrative skills developed in the design thinking of a Psychology course19
RETRACTED: Developing multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university students learning a foreign language (English) for specific purposes19
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach19
RETRACTED: Creative approaches in music teaching: Possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies19
Critical thinking predicts reductions in Spanish physicians' stress levels and promotes fake news detection19
RETRACTED: Critical thinking of a translator: Expanding the practice of using and editing machine translation19
RETRACTED: Methodology for using web technologies to develop the intellectual abilities of future mathematics teachers19
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences19
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students18
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others18
The relationships between Chinese teachers’ emotions, professional identity, and teaching for creativity: The mediating role of emotional intelligence18
Engagement predicts computational thinking skills in unplugged activity: Analysis of gender differences18
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds18
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score18
Is more time better for divergent thinking? A meta-analysis of the time-on-task effect on divergent thinking18
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity18
Prospective mathematics teachers’ thinking styles and problem-solving skills18
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)17
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design17
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices17
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications17
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension17
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions17
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer17
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit17
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates17
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information17
Effects of nature virtual backgrounds on creativity during videoconferencing16
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation16
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players16
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study16
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts16
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of divergent thinking measures16
Developmental activities in the acquisition of creativity in soccer players16
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis16
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective16
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education16
Exploring the connection between playfulness and learning: Making learning memorable in a culturally and economically diverse grade 5 classroom15
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking15
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)15
Effects of playing internet games on imagination15
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
Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing15
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation15
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers15
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 20215
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 202214
Classroom creativity and students’ social networks: Theoretical and practical implications14
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers14
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education14
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education14
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review14
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills14
RETRACTED: Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies14
Assessing the critical thinking skills of English language learners in a first year psychology course14
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality14
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase13
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates13
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China13
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?13
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study13
Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English13
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics13
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation13
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
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]13
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language13
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador13
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">13
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance13
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges13
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving13
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking13
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers13
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course13
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment12
Mapping the taxonomy of critical thinking ability in EFL12
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.12
The shifting patterns based on six thinking hats and its relationship with design creativity12
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas12
Divergent thinking in four-year-old children: An analysis of thinking processes in performing the Alternative Uses Task12
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education12
An exploratory investigation into EFL teacher educators’ approaches to develop EFL teachers’ ability to teach for creativity12
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity12
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language12
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review12
Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education12
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
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study12
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows12
RETRACTED: Studying creativity and critical thinking skills at university and students' future income11
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments11
Editorial Board11
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals11
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables11
RETRACTED: Building an online educational platform to promote creative and affective thinking in special education11
Measuring individual and group flow in collaborative improvisational dance11
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children11
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity11
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students11
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction11
Comparative experiment of the effects of unplugged and plugged-in programming on computational thinking in primary school students: A perspective of multiple influential factors11
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 modeling11
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history11
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education11
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience11
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning11
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy10
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China10
Examining the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward risky play and children's motor creativity skills10
Unplugged activities in the elementary school mathematics classroom: The effects on students’ computational thinking and mathematical creativity10
The Effect of STEM Activities Prepared According to the Design Thinking Model on Preschool Children's Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills10
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education10
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review10
Distinguishing the three versions of the Chinese Remote Associates Test based on default mode network connectivity10
A “light bulb moment”: Lab experiments enhancing novelty and critical thinking designed by future teachers10
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils10
The mediating effects of critical thinking on the motivation and creativity of Business English learners in the age of AI: Cognitive flexibility theory10
“Viewing puzzles as two-faced: theoretical and practical implications for Puzzle-based Learning”10
Developmental trends of different creative potentials in relation to adolescents’ critical thinking abilities10
Development of a critical self in the language reading classroom: An examination of learners’ L2 self10
Towards developing a critical learning skills framework for master's students: Evidence from a UK university10
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings10
Is the Text-Based Cognitive Tool More Effective Than the Concept Map on Improving the Pre-Service Teachers’ Argumentation Skills?10
Collaboration and engagement based coding training to enhance children’s computational thinking self-efficacy10
Preparing pre-service language teachers to teach critical thinking: Can overseas field school experience make a difference?10
Mapping the neural mechanisms of creativity by convergent and divergent thinking in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study10
Exploring creativity's complex relationship with learning in early elementary students10
Potential Conditions for Linking Teachers’ Online Informal Learning with Innovative Teaching9
Skills as declared learning outcomes of entrepreneurship training in higher education institutions across the globe: Classification and analysis with a focus on thinking skills9
Creativity knowledge of classroom teachers: Predictors and correlates9
Empowering students'engineering thinking: An empirical study of integrating engineering into science class at junior secondary schools9
An AI-based learning style prediction model for personalized and effective learning9
ChatGPT: The brightest student in the class9
On critical thinking and content knowledge: A critique of the assumptions of cognitive load theory9
Examining the 21st century skillset perceptions of academy and comprehensive school students9
Correlation between idea generation effort and resulting design solution success: An empirical study using RNEV as a new assessment technique9
The mediating role of critical thinking and cooperativity in the 21st century skills of higher education students9
Teaching holistic environmental thought: A classroom approach9
Improving self-efficacy and creative self-efficacy to foster creativity and learning in schools9
What does it take to be original? An exploration of mathematical problem solving9
RETRACTED: Do educators need metacognitive skills in today’s educational environment?9
RETRACTED: The role of innovative approaches in teaching the flute: A path to creative realization of students9
Structured diary introspection training: A kind of critical thinking training method can enhance the Pro-C creativity of interior designers9
Gamification and problem-based learning (PBL): Development of creativity in the teaching-learning process of mathematics in university students9
Influence of manipulating pitch size and game format in small-sided soccer games on tactical creativity and exploratory behavior of young players9
Effects of ability grouping on students’ collaborative problem solving patterns: Evidence from lag sequence analysis and epistemic network analysis9
Increased creative production in Spanish university students of Education9
Comparisons of convergent thinking: A perspective informed by culture and neural mechanisms9
A study on the relationship between student' learning engagements and higher-order thinking skills in programming learning9
Retraction notice to “Developing critical thinking skills in a digital educational environment” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100906]9
The impact of musical improvisation on children’s creative thinking9
Associations between Computational Thinking and Figural, Verbal Creativity8
Editorial Board8
Does unconscious processing benefit creative problem-solving, especially when people have been misdirected?8
The effect of a scientific board game on improving creative problem solving skills8
Adapting or adopting? Critical thinking education in the East Asian cultural sphere: A systematic integrative review8
Do De Bono's green hat and green-red combination increase creativity in brainstorming on individuals and dyads?8
Editorial Board8
Design, implementation, and evaluation of peer feedback to develop students’ critical thinking: A systematic review from 2010 to 20238
RETRACTED: Using mobile apps in vocal training to develop creative thinking8
A systematic mapping study on teaching and learning Computational Thinking through programming in higher education8
Integrating augmented reality into mathematics teaching and learning and examining its effectiveness8
The Investigation of critical thinking disposition among Chinese primary and middle school students8
Editorial Board8
Creative thinking for learning algebra: Year 10 students’ problem solving and problem posing with quadratic figural patterns8
Exploring and validating the componential model of students’ scientific critical thinking in science education8
Promoting students' creative self-efficacy, critical thinking and learning performance: An online interactive peer assessment approach guided by constructivist theory in maker activities8
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