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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Musical thinking problems163
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs159
Creative art-based pedagogies with autistic students: A systematic review on stakeholders' perspectives on its delivery and implementation in secondary mainstream schools119
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy104
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health100
Development of preservice teachers’ inquiry thinking skills: Unpacking the processes and challenges96
Origami-based collaborative spatial problem-solving: Multimodal observational study95
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”93
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>93
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 4191
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]90
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>78
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 278
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom68
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample63
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework62
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment61
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding59
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory58
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership57
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings54
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education53
Design knowledge scaffolds to facilitate students’ probabilistic thinking skills for solving classical probability problems: An exploratory study52
Fostering thinking skills: Transitioning from routine to creative design spaces52
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills51
What does creativity look like in preschool? A multi-method examination of unity and diversity in preschoolers’ creativity51
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function50
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 c49
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity49
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices48
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items46
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students46
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers45
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools45
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review44
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices44
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students44
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers44
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners44
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students44
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students43
Can creative musical and mathematical thinking be developed among first and second graders?43
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability41
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience41
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self41
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation39
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach39
Song dedication as creative gift practice: Toward a framework for dedication education37
Learning to be wrong: using Socratic Challenge to foster critical thinking35
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
From algorithms to artistry: Promoting high school students’ creativity through interdisciplinary integration of creative coding and smart design34
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus33
Exploring the emotional interaction of emergent roles in collaborative argumentation with multidimensional and fine-grained analysis33
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method32
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research32
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review32
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study31
Exploring the impact of diverse feedback sources on learners’ performance, motivation, and preference in a translation course: Tutor, peer, and GPT insight31
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS31
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study31
Reimaging intuition: How artificial intelligence image-generation technologies reshape graphic designers' creative patterns31
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors30
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research30
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis30
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia30
The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda29
The effects of game design on students’ creative performance in video game environments29
Pre-service biology teachers as developers of mobile augmented reality teaching materials: Enhancing, not replacing, science practices and connections with the natural environment29
Impact of a systematically designed computer-supported argument visualization tutorial on the skill of argument analysis29
The effort heuristic in little-c evaluations: An effort-derogation effect28
Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance28
Using machine learning techniques for evaluating creativity in Graphic Combination Task (GCT) among Chinese college students28
Exploring the impact of hypotheticality on students’ argumentation in online gamified learning environment28
Teacher support and adolescent creativity: The mediating effect of MAOB methylation28
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program28
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">27
Shaping students’ creative problem-solving skills through cognitive activation strategies: The mediating role of mathematics anxiety and perseverance27
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">27
Intangible Re-imagined historical spaces between walls: Art installation as an interactive teaching tool in theory-based architecture curricula27
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”27
Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills27
Colloquial engagement theory with AI awareness (CET-AIA): A new creative pedagogical framework for ethical assessment in the age of artificial intelligence27
Unveiling the nexus: Computational thinking and mathematical modelling in K-12 education- a teacher-centric exploration26
Children and adults differ in non-linear indicators of cognitive transitions solving of an insight problem26
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving26
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education26
Exploring the effects of interactive digital picture books on elementary students' creativity25
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models25
How teachers’ creative pedagogies shape students’ creative thinking skills: a multilevel moderated mediation analysis from East Asia25
Assessing novel techniques to promote creative cognition: Imaginative recategorization and context-dependent property generation25
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review25
Failing together: Interactive patterns of problem-solving between youth and educators in informal stem environments24
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students24
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds24
Critical thinking in higher education: Identifying the pedagogical practices and modes of engagement24
An Analysis of Gifted and Non-Gifted Fifth Graders’ Strategic Flexibility24
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?24
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others24
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills24
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality24
Design and verification of self-facilitation card-based toolset for complex problem-solving24
Engagement predicts computational thinking skills in unplugged activity: Analysis of gender differences23
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score23
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity23
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach23
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences23
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts23
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer23
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications22
The effects of teaching initiative, ICT application, and teaching collaboration on teachers’ creative thinking: Latent profile and multiple logistic regression analysis22
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 10122
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education22
The effects of a three-dimensional virtual learning medium on spatial ability and learning achievement in the anatomical sciences22
The relationships between Chinese teachers’ emotions, professional identity, and teaching for creativity: The mediating role of emotional intelligence22
Exploring the intersection of creativity and critical thinking among students: A meta-analysis22
Academic buoyancy and self-regulated learning among doctoral students: The mediating roles of creativity-generating research styles21
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension21
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices21
Trainee translators’ reflective thinking across assessment as learning activities: An epistemic network analysis approach21
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study21
Enhancing primary students’ language creativity through reading book-length fairy tale fiction in a computer-enriched environment21
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit20
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)20
Academic performance and creative development of education-degree students who participate in artistic activities20
Artistic and cultural education to improve creativity and motivation in students experiencing academic failure in secondary school20
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates20
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation20
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis20
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts20
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information20
The Mad-genius controversy: Estimating the creativity of suicide poets via a dual model20
Pseudo-creativity and authentic creativity differ in conceptual boundaries20
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design20
The resonances of innovation: Orchestrating a guqin course with the systems model of creativity and a creativity educational model development20
The inner mechanism of creativity advantages of Southeast Asian-Taiwanese bicultural children: The mediating roles of shyness and shame20
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking19
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective19
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players19
Relative age effect in creativity development: A longitudinal investigation19
Compositional tools based on artificial intelligence for choral artistic education: Enhancing creative skills in choral arrangements19
Factors influencing scientific reasoning ability in junior secondary students: Examining gender and grade-level predictive differences19
Characterizing social problem-solving skills in STEAM activities among preschool children enacting different social positions19
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions19
Automated Scoring of Question Complexity with Transformer Language Models19
Embracing ambiguity: Student experiences, creativity and confidence in the context of a novel interdisciplinary undergraduate course18
Reasoning skills or creativity: Which is more important in complex problem-solving?18
Comparative study of codecombat-based python programming and scratch programming effects on sixth graders' Computational thinking: interaction effects of gender and programming experience18
Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing18
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 20218
Survey on the influential demographic factors of Chinese undergraduate students’ critical thinking disposition: Evidence from plausible values18
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style18
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation18
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers18
Exploring the effect of cooperative learning on senior high school students’ critical thinking in EFL writing: An intervention study17
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)17
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review17
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education17
Long in the tooth for creativity? Differences in divergent thinking between young and older adults17
Embedding 21st-Century Competencies into Higher Education: Insights from Vietnamese Lecturers’ Perspectives and Pedagogical Strategies17
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills17
Modeling system dynamics in computational thinking integration using causal loop diagrams17
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 202217
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality17
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers17
Extracting the actions of contextual understanding in STEAM research: Direction for STEAM course design17
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education17
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?16
Development of a digital Creative Figural Design Test (CFDT): An approach to integrating divergent and convergent processes16
Creative mindsets are malleable: Effects of “born this way” messages and different definitions of creativity16
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course16
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">16
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador16
Creative coursework and college students’ perceptions: Examining creative self-efficacy, creative personal identity, and intrinsic task motivation16
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking16
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]16
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics16
Patterns in perceptions of learning to draw with guidance and conceptual scaffolding: Insights from a multi-cohort self-reported study16
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving15
Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English15
The relationship between creative self-concept and activities of Japanese junior high and high school students: A two-year longitudinal study15
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers15
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates15
Editorial Board15
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges15
Cultural creative processes supported by collaborative stimulation: A card-based toolkit for team interaction rules incorporation15
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review15
Comparison of high school textbooks analyzing higher order thinking skills development in India and Singapore15
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance15
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation15
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China15
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education14
Retrieval bias and policy judgment: A cognitive perspective on principals and teachers' evaluations14
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment14
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study14
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language14
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history14
An integrated approach to cultivate spatial creativity based on free-form origami and Chinese paper-cutting14
Unraveling the creative mind: The role of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in creativity14
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase14
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]14
How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility14
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows13
Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality13
The influence of preschool teachers’ critical thinking attitude on their perceived ease of understanding and integrating, and attitude toward implementation of a new curriculum13
Computer-based interactive training in nature-based environmental education: Impact on conservation behaviours, social behaviours, and lower and higher order thinking skills13
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity13
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy13
Integrating an educational chatbot in an undergraduate-level linguistics course: Cognitive load and student engagement13
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study13
Unlocking creative potential: The role of creative mindset on creativity13
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas13
Examining the effect of primary education thinking skills curriculum on the creative thinking abilities of gifted female students13
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience13
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings13
Innovative STEAM teaching through linocut printmaking13
Editorial Board13
How do high-performers and low-performers differently engage in collaborative creative problem solving with a conversational GenAI chatbot?13
Fast processing speed, enhanced mathematics: exploring the relation between approximate number system and arithmetic ability in athletes and video game players13
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.13
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity13
Comparative experiment of the effects of unplugged and plugged-in programming on computational thinking in primary school students: A perspective of multiple influential factors13
Measuring early engineering interest: A scale for kindergarteners12
A systematic review of factors influencing K-12 teachers’ creative teaching across different forms: An ecological perspective12
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals12
From logs to insights: Exploring domains of creativity in data analytics tasks12
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students12
Fostering critical thinkers and future designers: Design fiction pedagogy in AI education12
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language12
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education12
Examining the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward risky play and children's motor creativity skills12
Cross-cultural comparison of creative thinking in mathematics textbooks: A case study of high school mathematics textbooks in China, Japan, and South Korea12
Factors influencing attitudes and behavioral intentions toward GenAI in creative collaboration: A cross-cultural comparison via a hybrid multistage approach12
Exploring creative thinking skills and creativity in English courses through the lenses of creative pedagogy in two continuum IB schools12
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning12
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables12
Personality correlates of motivation in the art and science domains: the bright- and dark-side trait perspective12
The role of a designed problem-solving method with metacognitive scaffolding on students’ conceptual change learning and teachers’ instructional practices in Biology12
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments12
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children12
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China12
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction12
Fusing Six-Hat thinking with AI: How the Green Hat and ChatGPT Co-Regulate pre-service teachers' instructional design—insights from epistemic network analysis11
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education11
Corpus-assisted counterargumentation instruction: cultivating critical thinking via argumentative writing11
The mediating effects of critical thinking on the motivation and creativity of Business English learners in the age of AI: Cognitive flexibility theory11
Mediation effect of scientific competency on relationship between inductive reasoning and domain-general and domain-specific problem solving11
Canvas and quill: Improving students' creativity and writing composition through creative painting diary11
Virtual reality in P-12 education for improving presence, immersion, and 4C skills: A systematic review of empirical research11
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils11
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review11
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