Thinking Skills and Creativity

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	112
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity	98
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample	70
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>	68
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]	67
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom	67
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	66
Musical thinking problems	64
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	63
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation	61
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century	60
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>	57
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools	56
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”	56
Toward a system model of improvisation	50
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs	49
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health	48
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education	48
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding	47
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function	46
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings	46
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth	44
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework	44
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking	42
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory	41

Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom	40
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership	40
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course	40
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy	40
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	40
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills	40
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method	39
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment	39
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students	38
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices	38
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self	38
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation	37
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students	37
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers	35
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students	35
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach	34
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research	34
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
Technology-Enhanced CT: A Systematic Review	33
Editorial Board	33
RETRACTED: Choreographic art features: Creative concepts and innovations in teaching	33
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students	32
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools	32
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers	32
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices	32
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus	32
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review	31
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners	31
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items	30
School support for teacher innovation: Mediating effects of teacher self-efficacy and moderating effects of trust	30
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review	30
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability	30
Fostering creative thinking in the family: The importance of parenting styles	30
Perception of social problems among young people Characteristics of social innovation knowledge potential	29
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS	29
The effort heuristic in little-c evaluations: An effort-derogation effect	28
Exploring the effects of interactive digital picture books on elementary students' creativity	28
Impact of a systematically designed computer-supported argument visualization tutorial on the skill of argument analysis	28
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience	28
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis	27
RETRACTED: Creative thinking as a driver for students’ transition to university 4.0 model	27
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study	27
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education	26
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">	25
RETRACTED: Creative thinking and musical collaboration: Promoting online learning groups for aspiring musicians	25
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”	25
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">	25
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors	24
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	24
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study	24

Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance	23
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review	23
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program	23
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research	23
RETRACTED: Methodology for using web technologies to develop the intellectual abilities of future mathematics teachers	22
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving	22
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia	22
Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills	22
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models	22
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts	22
The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda	22
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer	21
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?	21
RETRACTED: Critical thinking of a translator: Expanding the practice of using and editing machine translation	21
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills	21
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds	20
Exploration of students’ integrative skills developed in the design thinking of a Psychology course	20
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences	20
An Analysis of Gifted and Non-Gifted Fifth Graders’ Strategic Flexibility	20
Critical thinking predicts reductions in Spanish physicians' stress levels and promotes fake news detection	20
The relationships between Chinese teachers’ emotions, professional identity, and teaching for creativity: The mediating role of emotional intelligence	20
Engagement predicts computational thinking skills in unplugged activity: Analysis of gender differences	20
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach	20
RETRACTED: Developing multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university students learning a foreign language (English) for specific purposes	19
Is more time better for divergent thinking? A meta-analysis of the time-on-task effect on divergent thinking	19
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension	19
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score	19
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity	19
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others	19
Compositional tools based on artificial intelligence for choral artistic education: Enhancing creative skills in choral arrangements	19
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students	19
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality	19
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications	19
Trainee translators’ reflective thinking across assessment as learning activities: An epistemic network analysis approach	18
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation	18
Enhancing primary students’ language creativity through reading book-length fairy tale fiction in a computer-enriched environment	18
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts	18
Factors influencing scientific reasoning ability in junior secondary students: Examining gender and grade-level predictive differences	18
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)	18
The inner mechanism of creativity advantages of Southeast Asian-Taiwanese bicultural children: The mediating roles of shyness and shame	18
The Mad-genius controversy: Estimating the creativity of suicide poets via a dual model	18
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective	18
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices	18
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit	18
Developmental activities in the acquisition of creativity in soccer players	17
Effects of nature virtual backgrounds on creativity during videoconferencing	17
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players	17
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates	17
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information	17
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education	17
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions	17
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of divergent thinking measures	17
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design	17
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study	16
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers	16
Survey on the influential demographic factors of Chinese undergraduate students’ critical thinking disposition: Evidence from plausible values	16
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking	16
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	16
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 2022	16
Effects of playing internet games on imagination	16
RETRACTED: Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies	16
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis	16
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers	16
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality	15
Exploring the connection between playfulness and learning: Making learning memorable in a culturally and economically diverse grade 5 classroom	15
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills	15
Exploring the effect of cooperative learning on senior high school students’ critical thinking in EFL writing: An intervention study	15
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education	15
Reasoning skills or creativity: Which is more important in complex problem-solving?	15
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education	15
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style	15
Comparative study of codecombat-based python programming and scratch programming effects on sixth graders' Computational thinking: interaction effects of gender and programming experience	15
Extracting the actions of contextual understanding in STEAM research: Direction for STEAM course design	15
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)	15
Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing	15
Classroom creativity and students’ social networks: Theoretical and practical implications	15
Assessing the critical thinking skills of English language learners in a first year psychology course	15
Long in the tooth for creativity? Differences in divergent thinking between young and older adults	15
Relative age effect in creativity development: A longitudinal investigation	15
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?	14

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
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review	14
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics	14
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation	14
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language	14
The relationship between creative self-concept and activities of Japanese junior high and high school students: A two-year longitudinal study	14
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course	14
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation	14
Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English	14
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador	14
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving	14
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study	14
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">	14
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers	14
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking	14
Development of a digital Creative Figural Design Test (CFDT): An approach to integrating divergent and convergent processes	14
Creative mindsets are malleable: Effects of “born this way” messages and different definitions of creativity	14
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China	14
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
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity	13
Unraveling the creative mind: The role of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in creativity	13
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment	13
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges	13
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students	13
An exploratory investigation into EFL teacher educators’ approaches to develop EFL teachers’ ability to teach for creativity	13
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates	13
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review	13
How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility	13
Editorial Board	13
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education	13
Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education	13
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance	13
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase	13
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction	12
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education	12
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study	12
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas	12
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience	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
Measuring Early Engineering Interest: A Scale for Kindergarteners	12
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language	12
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity	12
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables	12
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning	12
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings	12
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.	12
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history	12
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
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows	11
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children	11
The influence of preschool teachers’ critical thinking attitude on their perceived ease of understanding and integrating, and attitude toward implementation of a new curriculum	11
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments	11
Mapping the taxonomy of critical thinking ability in EFL	11
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals	11
Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality	11
RETRACTED: Studying creativity and critical thinking skills at university and students' future income	11
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy	11
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China	11
Computer-based interactive training in nature-based environmental education: Impact on conservation behaviours, social behaviours, and lower and higher order thinking skills	11
A “light bulb moment”: Lab experiments enhancing novelty and critical thinking designed by future teachers	10
The shifting patterns based on six thinking hats and its relationship with design creativity	10
Development of a critical self in the language reading classroom: An examination of learners’ L2 self	10
A systematic review of factors influencing K-12 teachers’ creative teaching across different forms: An ecological perspective	10
How to set up a formal Design Thinking course that works? A practical guide for higher education settings	10
Increased creative production in Spanish university students of Education	10
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education	10
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils	10
Critical thinking in the cultural components of EFL textbooks: CCR model and its application	10
“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 abilities	10
Mediation effect of scientific competency on relationship between inductive reasoning and domain-general and domain-specific problem solving	10
Is the Text-Based Cognitive Tool More Effective Than the Concept Map on Improving the Pre-Service Teachers’ Argumentation Skills?	10
RETRACTED: Do educators need metacognitive skills in today’s educational environment?	10
The mediating effects of critical thinking on the motivation and creativity of Business English learners in the age of AI: Cognitive flexibility theory	10
Canvas and quill: Improving students' creativity and writing composition through creative painting diary	10
The Effect of STEM Activities Prepared According to the Design Thinking Model on Preschool Children's Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills	10
Examining the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward risky play and children's motor creativity skills	10
Exploring the effects of scaffolded reflective learning on student teachers' design performance and reflective thinking	10
Mapping the neural mechanisms of creativity by convergent and divergent thinking in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	10
Exploring creativity's complex relationship with learning in early elementary students	10
Unplugged activities in the elementary school mathematics classroom: The effects on students’ computational thinking and mathematical creativity	10
Influence of manipulating pitch size and game format in small-sided soccer games on tactical creativity and exploratory behavior of young players	10
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review	10
Towards developing a critical learning skills framework for master's students: Evidence from a UK university	10
RETRACTED: Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation	9
Correlation between idea generation effort and resulting design solution success: An empirical study using RNEV as a new assessment technique	9
Improving self-efficacy and creative self-efficacy to foster creativity and learning in schools	9
Retraction notice to “Developing critical thinking skills in a digital educational environment” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100906]	9
Editorial Board	9
The mediating role of critical thinking and cooperativity in the 21st century skills of higher education students	9
Effects of ability grouping on students’ collaborative problem solving patterns: Evidence from lag sequence analysis and epistemic network analysis	9
Structured diary introspection training: A kind of critical thinking training method can enhance the Pro-C creativity of interior designers	9
Editorial Board	9
An AI-based learning style prediction model for personalized and effective learning	9
RETRACTED: The role of innovative approaches in teaching the flute: A path to creative realization of students	9