Thinking Skills and Creativity

Article	Citations
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	119
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	105
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	80
Editorial Board	75
Musical thinking problems	74
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	73
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	68
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	68
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	65
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	64
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	64
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	59
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	59
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	57
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	53
Toward a system model of improvisation	52
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	49
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	48
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	47
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	47
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	46
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	45
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	45
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	44
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	43

Fostering Thinking Skills: Transitioning from Routine to Creative Design Spaces	42
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	42
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	42
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability	41
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	41
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus	39
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students	39
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students	39
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners	38
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation	38
Editorial Board	37
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research	37
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review	37
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience	37
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools	36
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach	35
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers	35
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]	34
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items	34
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review	34
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	32
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers	32
Song Dedication as Creative Gift Practice: Toward a Framework for Dedication Education	32
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	31
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS	31
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	31
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices	31
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study	30
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	30
Impact of a systematically designed computer-supported argument visualization tutorial on the skill of argument analysis	30
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students	30
The effort heuristic in little-c evaluations: An effort-derogation effect	30
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis	29
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors	28
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research	28
Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance	28
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”	27
RETRACTED: Creative thinking and musical collaboration: Promoting online learning groups for aspiring musicians	26
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study	26
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review	25
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 region	25
Exploring the effects of interactive digital picture books on elementary students' creativity	24
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">	24
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education	24
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia	24
The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda	24
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">	24
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving	24
Using Machine Learning Techniques for Evaluating Creativity in Graphic Combination Task (GCT) Among Chinese College Students	23
An Analysis of Gifted and Non-Gifted Fifth Graders’ Strategic Flexibility	23

Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills	23
Unveiling the Nexus: Computational Thinking and Mathematical Modelling in K-12 Education- A Teacher-Centric Exploration	23
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences	23
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models	23
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program	23
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students	22
The relationships between Chinese teachers’ emotions, professional identity, and teaching for creativity: The mediating role of emotional intelligence	22
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer	22
Engagement predicts computational thinking skills in unplugged activity: Analysis of gender differences	22
RETRACTED: Critical thinking of a translator: Expanding the practice of using and editing machine translation	22
Critical thinking predicts reductions in Spanish physicians' stress levels and promotes fake news detection	21
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?	21
RETRACTED: Developing multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university students learning a foreign language (English) for specific purposes	21
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds	21
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications	20
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach	20
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills	20
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity	20
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others	20
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts	20
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education	20
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality	20
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score	20
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates	19
Trainee translators’ reflective thinking across assessment as learning activities: An epistemic network analysis approach	19
The Mad-genius controversy: Estimating the creativity of suicide poets via a dual model	19
Enhancing primary students’ language creativity through reading book-length fairy tale fiction in a computer-enriched environment	19
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit	19
Factors influencing scientific reasoning ability in junior secondary students: Examining gender and grade-level predictive differences	19
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis	19
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts	19
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices	18
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study	18
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)	18
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information	18
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design	18
The inner mechanism of creativity advantages of Southeast Asian-Taiwanese bicultural children: The mediating roles of shyness and shame	18
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective	17
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions	17
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation	17
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players	17
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension	17
Compositional tools based on artificial intelligence for choral artistic education: Enhancing creative skills in choral arrangements	17
Artistic and cultural education to improve creativity and motivation in students experiencing academic failure in secondary school	17
Effects of nature virtual backgrounds on creativity during videoconferencing	17
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality	16
Long in the tooth for creativity? Differences in divergent thinking between young and older adults	16
Exploring the effect of cooperative learning on senior high school students’ critical thinking in EFL writing: An intervention study	16
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education	16
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style	16
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers	16
Assessing the critical thinking skills of English language learners in a first year psychology course	16
Relative age effect in creativity development: A longitudinal investigation	16
Comparative study of codecombat-based python programming and scratch programming effects on sixth graders' Computational thinking: interaction effects of gender and programming experience	16
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation	16
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course	16
Extracting the actions of contextual understanding in STEAM research: Direction for STEAM course design	16
Exploring the connection between playfulness and learning: Making learning memorable in a culturally and economically diverse grade 5 classroom	16
RETRACTED: Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies	16
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills	15
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers	15
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 2022	15
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education	15
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	15
Classroom creativity and students’ social networks: Theoretical and practical implications	15
Survey on the influential demographic factors of Chinese undergraduate students’ critical thinking disposition: Evidence from plausible values	15
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)	15
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates	14
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase	14
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador	14
How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility	14
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">	14
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review	14
Reasoning skills or creativity: Which is more important in complex problem-solving?	14
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education	14
Development of a digital Creative Figural Design Test (CFDT): An approach to integrating divergent and convergent processes	14
The relationship between creative self-concept and activities of Japanese junior high and high school students: A two-year longitudinal study	14
Creative mindsets are malleable: Effects of “born this way” messages and different definitions of creativity	14
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving	14
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking	14

Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing	14
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges	14
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language	14
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment	14
Unraveling the creative mind: The role of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in creativity	14
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance	14
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking	14
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review	14
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study	13
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation	13
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China	13
The influence of preschool teachers’ critical thinking attitude on their perceived ease of understanding and integrating, and attitude toward implementation of a new curriculum	13
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]	13
Computer-based interactive training in nature-based environmental education: Impact on conservation behaviours, social behaviours, and lower and higher order thinking skills	13
Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English	13
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?	13
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
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history	13
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning	13
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics	13
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers	13
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study	13
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals	13
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students	13
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language	12
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction	12
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity	12
Editorial Board	12
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows	12
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.	12
RETRACTED: Studying creativity and critical thinking skills at university and students' future income	12
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	12
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children	12
An exploratory investigation into EFL teacher educators’ approaches to develop EFL teachers’ ability to teach for creativity	12
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables	12
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China	12
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy	12
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education	11
Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality	11
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas	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
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review	11
Towards developing a critical learning skills framework for master's students: Evidence from a UK university	11
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments	11
Comparative experiment of the effects of unplugged and plugged-in programming on computational thinking in primary school students: A perspective of multiple influential factors	11
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings	11
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils	11
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education	11
Exploring creativity's complex relationship with learning in early elementary students	11
Developmental trends of different creative potentials in relation to adolescents’ critical thinking abilities	11
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity	11
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience	11
The shifting patterns based on six thinking hats and its relationship with design creativity	11
A “light bulb moment”: Lab experiments enhancing novelty and critical thinking designed by future teachers	11
Mediation effect of scientific competency on relationship between inductive reasoning and domain-general and domain-specific problem solving	11
Development of a critical self in the language reading classroom: An examination of learners’ L2 self	11
Canvas and quill: Improving students' creativity and writing composition through creative painting diary	11