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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board96
Cognitive processes in selecting humorous punchlines: A comparative study of humor and creativity79
Retraction notice to <“Rethinking and reflecting on cooperation between schools and enterprises: Research into the concept of school enterprise cooperation”>64
When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample64
Retraction notice to “The role of classical music in the creative thinking of university students” [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 41, September 2021, 100925]62
Relationship between media multitasking behavior and divergent thinking: The moderating effect of executive function60
Improvising and keeping time: How listening and silence can position the teacher in the classroom58
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 258
Are online games a blessing or evil? The moderating role of self-worth54
Musical thinking problems54
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 4153
RETRACTED: Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation52
Retraction notice to <“Competence matrix of a foreign language teacher in higher education: Formal presentation”>51
RETRACTED: The role of applied problems in the training of future mathematics teachers in the 21st century51
Retraction notice to “Anxiety level and critical thinking associated with foreign language learning, depending on educational and professional activities”49
Toward a system model of improvisation47
The mediating role of creative self-concept in the relation between filial piety and general mental health46
Navigating the landscape of creative teaching: Challenges and opportunities in teacher preparation programs46
Opening doors: To cognitively curate creativity concepts in art education45
Development of a formative assessment instrument to determine students’ need for corrective actions in physics: Identifying students’ functional level of understanding41
A study on creative drawing strategies based on the human head features in children's realistic figure drawings40
Problem and project-based learning through an investigation lesson: Significant gains in creative thinking behaviour within the Australian foundation (preparatory) classroom39
How can an innovative teaching force be developed? The empowering role of distributed leadership38
Teacher's engagement in creativity: The role of school middle leaders' values, team diversity and team knowledge self-efficacy38
RETRACTED: Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course37
Critical thinking in the context of adult learning through PBL and e-learning: A course framework37
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 c37
Forward flow and creative thought: Assessing associative cognition and its role in divergent thinking37
Educational robotics or unplugged coding activities in kindergartens?: Comparison of the effects on pre-school children's computational thinking and executive function skills36
Enhancing university students' creative confidence, learning motivation, and team creative performance in design thinking using a digital visual collaborative environment36
Understanding student teachers’ collaborative problem solving competency: Insights from process data and multidimensional item response theory34
Peeking at low versus high achievers’ problem-solving processes in interactive tasks with multiple items34
The learner-centred interactive pedagogy classroom: Its implications for dialogic interaction in Eritrean secondary schools34
Understanding creative teaching in China: An empirical study by a narrative inquiry method33
Effectiveness of online project-based learning on Chinese EFL learners’ critical thinking skills and reading comprehension ability33
Understanding entrepreneurial thinking for designers: Perspectives from entrepreneurs, academicians, product designers, and students33
RETRACTED: Choreographic art features: Creative concepts and innovations in teaching32
Having qualified arguments: Promoting Pre-service teachers’ critical thinking through deliberate computer-assisted argument mapping practices32
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]32
How parenting styles affect children’s creativity: Through the lens of self32
Technology-Enhanced CT: A Systematic Review31
Storytelling in EFL primary education: Defining a sociocritical and participatory model with pre-service teachers31
Editorial Board31
Twenty years of research development on teachers’ critical thinking: Current status and future implications——A bibliometric analysis of research articles collected in WOS31
Service design from the perspective of “six thinking hats”: A comparison of storytelling strategies of experts and novices30
Supervisor negative feedback and subordinate creative behavior: The role of cognitive appraisal and regulatory focus30
Exploring mathematical reasoning skills of middle school students30
Perception of social problems among young people Characteristics of social innovation knowledge potential30
Promoting perceived creativity and innovative behavior: Benefits of future problem-solving programs for higher education students29
Growing and fixing: Comparing the creative mindsets of teachers and artist practitioners29
Fostering creative thinking in the family: The importance of parenting styles28
Exploring the impact of design thinking in information technology education: An empirical investigation28
How to learn and teach a foreign language through computational thinking: Suggestions based on a systematic review28
How do students'roles in collaborative learning affect collaborative problem-solving competency? A systematic review of research28
English as a foreign language teachers’ professional success, loving pedagogy and creativity: A structural equation modeling approach28
What causes malevolent creative people to engage in malevolent behaviors? Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating effects of conscience27
Modeling the contribution of grit, hope to perceptions of creativity among Chinese college EFL teachers27
Examining the relation of open thinking, critical thinking, metacognitive skills and usage frequency of open educational resources among high school students27
From algorithms to artistry: Promoting high school students’ creativity through interdisciplinary integration of creative coding and smart design26
School support for teacher innovation: Mediating effects of teacher self-efficacy and moderating effects of trust26
Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review26
Impact of a systematically designed computer-supported argument visualization tutorial on the skill of argument analysis25
The effort heuristic in little-c evaluations: An effort-derogation effect25
Critical thinking and L2 learning in the persian context: A Meta-analysis24
RETRACTED: Creative thinking as a driver for students’ transition to university 4.0 model24
Exploring caregiver influence on child creativity and innovation in an out-of-school engineering program23
Measuring parental behaviors supporting higher order thinking skills in children: A scale development study23
Exploring the impact of the design thinking model on fifth graders’ creative self-efficacy, situational interest, and individual interest in STEM education23
Retraction notice to <"Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies">22
Do multicultural exposure and interaction affect creative teaching by building self-belief? A mixed methods study22
Retraction notice to “Critical thinking of music educators as a factor in creative music pedagogy”22
Examining the causal model between socially shared regulation of motivation, engagement, and creative performance22
Retraction notice to <"Exploring children's well-being and creativity in Chinese folk music lessons">22
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 region22
RETRACTED: Creative thinking and musical collaboration: Promoting online learning groups for aspiring musicians22
Creativity as a topic in project management – A scoping review and directions for research21
The role of individual characteristics in shaping digital entrepreneurial intention among university students: Evidence from Saudi Arabia21
Investigating mathematical creativity through the connection between creative abilities in problem posing and problem solving21
Gifted youths’ mathematical modelling-based project production: Structure, triggers and contributing factors21
Critical reading in higher education: A systematic review21
The impact of risk-taking and creativity stimuli in education towards innovation: A systematic review and research agenda21
Popular culture texts in education: The effect of tales transformed into children's media on critical thinking and media literacy skills20
Beyond semantic distance: Automated scoring of divergent thinking greatly improves with large language models20
Distinct inter-brain synchronization patterns during group creativity under threats in cooperative and competitive contexts20
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
RETRACTED: Developing multiliteracy skills and pragmatic communication awareness of university students learning a foreign language (English) for specific purposes19
Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score18
Using the divergent association task to measure divergent thinking in Chinese elementary school students18
The impact of electronic interactive teaching materials (EITMs) in e-learning on junior high school students’ critical thinking skills18
Creativity and motor skill learning among kindergarten children: Investigating Predictive correlations and performance differences18
How powerful are Chinese characters' effects on children's creativity?18
Is more time better for divergent thinking? A meta-analysis of the time-on-task effect on divergent thinking18
The impact of creative movement program on the creativity of 5-6-year-olds18
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
Failing Together: Interactive Patterns of Problem-Solving between Youth and Educators in Informal STEM Environments18
Critical thinking predicts reductions in Spanish physicians' stress levels and promotes fake news detection17
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking skills through the unplugged computational thinking integrated STEM approach17
Data Analytics Skill Development for Design Education: A Case Study in Optimal Product-Service Bundle Design17
The contribution of divergent and convergent thinking to visual creativity17
Discourse moves and socio-emotional interactions in collaborative argumentation: Exploring how their co-occurrence impacts argumentation quality17
Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer17
Unfairness brings malice: Malevolent creativity is modulated by perceived unfairness of others17
Exploration of students’ integrative skills developed in the design thinking of a Psychology course17
When prevention facilitates group creativity: The effect of regulatory focus and regulatory fit on interpersonal neural couplings of creative communications17
The inner mechanism of creativity advantages of Southeast Asian-Taiwanese bicultural children: The mediating roles of shyness and shame16
Effects of nature virtual backgrounds on creativity during videoconferencing16
Evaluating relational reasoning ability with the Semantic Similarities Test: The impact of fluid intelligence and vocabulary indices16
Action < > Symbol: A generative tension16
From no distinction to direction, the impact of motivation on creativity: The contribution of environmental resources and grit16
Evaluative skill in the creative process: A cross-cultural study16
Intuition or rationality: Impact of critical thinking dispositions on the cognitive processing of creative information16
Compositional tools based on artificial intelligence for choral artistic education: Enhancing creative skills in choral arrangements16
Creative practice, entanglements and complex emergence: Teaching in the arts16
Individual differences in semantic priming and inhibitory control predict performance in the Remote Associates Test (RAT)16
RETRACTED: Thinking skills development in mobile learning: The case of elementary school students studying environmental studies15
Extracting the actions of contextual understanding in STEAM research: Direction for STEAM course design15
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
Developmental activities in the acquisition of creativity in soccer players15
Sport psychology in coaching: Improving the personality traits and thinking skills of basketball players15
The relationship between creativity and yoga nidra as a mindfulness practice: Considering the possibilities for wellbeing and education15
Classroom creativity and students’ social networks: Theoretical and practical implications15
Relative age effect in creativity development: A longitudinal investigation15
Socioeconomic status effects on children's creativity: The mediating role of executive functions15
Gender differences in critical thinking and strategy use in English writing from sources among Chinese EFL undergraduates15
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of divergent thinking measures15
Exploring the effect of cooperative learning on senior high school students’ critical thinking in EFL writing: An intervention study15
Assessing the critical thinking skills of English language learners in a first year psychology course15
Exploring the interplay between fluid intelligence and creativity: the mediating role of the field-dependent-independent cognitive style15
The effectiveness of educational interventions on thinking and operational skills in complex learning—A meta-analysis15
Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective15
The mediating role of metacognitive awareness in the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation15
Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education14
The effect of computer science unplugged on abstraction as a sub-component of computational thinking14
Effects of playing internet games on imagination14
Development and validation of the Kaufman domains of creativity scale-Chinese short version (K-DOCS-CSV)14
Promoting design thinking and creativity by making: A quasi-experiment in the information technology course14
Development and validation of a higher-order thinking skills assessment scale for pre-service teachers14
The effect of example abstraction on creativity from the perspectives of example modality and generality14
Exploring the underlying cognitive process of computational thinking in primary education14
Survey on the influential demographic factors of Chinese undergraduate students’ critical thinking disposition: Evidence from plausible values14
Exploring the connection between playfulness and learning: Making learning memorable in a culturally and economically diverse grade 5 classroom14
Using an integrated discourse analysis approach to analyze a group's collaborative argumentation14
Development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to measure parental support for drawing14
Worth 1000 words: Using pictures to identify systems thinkers14
Mapping research on musical creativity: A bibliometric review of the literature from 1990 to 202214
Assessment of mathematical creative thinking: A systematic review14
Creative mindsets are malleable: Effects of “born this way” messages and different definitions of creativity13
Design and validate the Employer-Employee-Supported Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (2ES-CTDI) for undergraduates13
Making design thinking for education sustainable: Training preservice teachers to address practice challenges13
Perceived barriers and facilitators of the lesson study approach to promoting productive reflective thinking among student teachers13
Retraction notice to <"Role of art programs in young children's social-emotional learning">13
The effect of OMO learning on high school students' problem-solving skills in physics13
Rise above prejudice against personality: Association with personality and interactive collaboration in team creativity performance13
Educational experiences integrating the arts into teaching practice in primary education in Ecuador13
Comparing AIGC and traditional idea generation methods: Evaluating their impact on creativity in the product design ideation phase13
Relieving negative Chinese transfer in EFL syntactic writing through negative feedback based on computational thinking13
Systematic review of problem based learning research in fostering critical thinking skills13
Development of a digital Creative Figural Design Test (CFDT): An approach to integrating divergent and convergent processes13
Unraveling the creative mind: The role of deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in creativity13
Thinking styles and vocational identity among senior-year students in elite universities in mainland China13
Critical thinking in practice: The priorities and practices of instructors teaching in higher education13
EFL students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: A perspective of peer facilitation13
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 task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English13
RETRACTED: Advertising as a challenge to awareness: is advertising adequate for the rational thinker in a digital environment?13
The impact of story-inspired programming on preschool children's computational thinking: A multi-group experiment12
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
Development of the control of variables strategy in physics among secondary school students12
Improving student creativity through digital technology products: A literature review12
Show us what you got! A cross-cultural comparison of mindset presentation in “…Got Talent!” TV shows12
The role of learning anxiety and mathematical reasoning as predictor of promoting learning motivation: The mediating role of mathematical problem solving12
Data Analysis in Factors of Social Entrepreneurship Tools in Complex Thinking: An exploratory study12
Negative mood constrains creative thinking in the native but not in the second language12
Promoting student creativity and entrepreneurship through real-world problem-based maker education12
Divergent thinking and Executive functions in children: A developmental perspective based on intellectual capacity12
How does stress shape creativity? The mediating effect of stress hormones and cognitive flexibility12
Automatic detection and interpretable analysis of learners’ cognitive states based on electroencephalogram signals11
Exploring the Impact of Puzzle Games for the Elderly from Experiential Learning11
Fostering young children's creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review.11
Exploring the role of virtual exhibition and media design rhetoric in learning history11
Comparative experiment of the effects of unplugged and plugged-in programming on computational thinking in primary school students: A perspective of multiple influential factors11
Creative learning in final year students in computer engineering: A case study of the University of Matanzas11
Editorial Board11
Trends of thinking skills in social studies and life studies courses: A meta-synthesis study11
Growth of critical thinking skills in middle school immersive science learning environments11
Mapping the taxonomy of critical thinking ability in EFL11
How do parents influence student creativity? Evidence from a large-scale survey in China11
Critical thinking predictors: the role of family-related and motivational variables11
RETRACTED: Studying creativity and critical thinking skills at university and students' future income11
Engineering-based modelling experiences of elementary gifted students: An example of bridge construction11
The confluence of the creativity components in the ELT textbooks of inner, outer, and expanding circle countries: An investment theory of creativity11
An exploratory investigation into EFL teacher educators’ approaches to develop EFL teachers’ ability to teach for creativity11
Integrating creative pedagogy into problem-based learning: The effects on higher order thinking skills in science education11
A “light bulb moment”: Lab experiments enhancing novelty and critical thinking designed by future teachers10
Examining the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward risky play and children's motor creativity skills10
Is the Text-Based Cognitive Tool More Effective Than the Concept Map on Improving the Pre-Service Teachers’ Argumentation Skills?10
The shifting patterns based on six thinking hats and its relationship with design creativity10
The influence of physical activity on the creativity of 10 and 11-year-old school children10
Examining the Effect of Primary Education Thinking Skills Curriculum on the Creative Thinking Abilities of Gifted Female Students10
Developmental trends of different creative potentials in relation to adolescents’ critical thinking abilities10
“Viewing puzzles as two-faced: theoretical and practical implications for Puzzle-based Learning”10
Personality Correlates of Motivation in Art and Science Domains: The Bright and Dark Traits Perspective10
Exploring the effects of scaffolded reflective learning on student teachers' design performance and reflective thinking10
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 modeling10
Relationships between metacognition, creativity, and critical thinking in self-reported teaching performances in project-based learning settings10
Exploring the development of adolescents’ scientific creativity among science fair winners through the lens of resilience10
Towards developing a critical learning skills framework for master's students: Evidence from a UK university10
Towards a set of design principles for technology-assisted critical-thinking cultivation: A synthesis of research in English language education10
Development of a critical self in the language reading classroom: An examination of learners’ L2 self10
The mediating effects of critical thinking on the motivation and creativity of Business English learners in the age of AI: Cognitive flexibility theory10
Examining the relations between semantic memory structure and creativity in second language10
Relationship between Critical thinking and academic self- concept: An experimental study of Reciprocal teaching strategy10
The cultivation of children's musical creative practical competency: A literature review10
Creativity predicts standardized educational outcomes beyond GPA and personality10
Exploring creativity's complex relationship with learning in early elementary students9
The Effect of STEM Activities Prepared According to the Design Thinking Model on Preschool Children's Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills9
Influence of manipulating pitch size and game format in small-sided soccer games on tactical creativity and exploratory behavior of young players9
An AI-based learning style prediction model for personalized and effective learning9
What does it take to be original? An exploration of mathematical problem solving9
Gamification and problem-based learning (PBL): Development of creativity in the teaching-learning process of mathematics in university students9
ChatGPT: The brightest student in the class9
Mapping the neural mechanisms of creativity by convergent and divergent thinking in school-aged children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study9
The effect of interdisciplinary teaching approach on the creative and critical thinking skills of gifted pupils9
RETRACTED: Do educators need metacognitive skills in today’s educational environment?9
Potential Conditions for Linking Teachers’ Online Informal Learning with Innovative Teaching9
Correlation between idea generation effort and resulting design solution success: An empirical study using RNEV as a new assessment technique9
Creativity knowledge of classroom teachers: Predictors and correlates9
Unplugged activities in the elementary school mathematics classroom: The effects on students’ computational thinking and mathematical creativity9
Increased creative production in Spanish university students of Education9
How to set up a formal Design Thinking course that works? A practical guide for higher education settings9
The mediating role of critical thinking and cooperativity in the 21st century skills of higher education students9
Empowering students'engineering thinking: An empirical study of integrating engineering into science class at junior secondary schools9
Skills as declared learning outcomes of entrepreneurship training in higher education institutions across the globe: Classification and analysis with a focus on thinking skills9
Design, implementation, and evaluation of peer feedback to develop students’ critical thinking: A systematic review from 2010 to 20238
Creative thinking for learning algebra: Year 10 students’ problem solving and problem posing with quadratic figural patterns8
The effect of a scientific board game on improving creative problem solving skills8
Qian Xuesen's question I: Collectivism's influence on serial order effect in divergent thinking8
Exploring and validating the componential model of students’ scientific critical thinking in science education8
RETRACTED: Using mobile apps in vocal training to develop creative thinking8
Retraction notice to ``Enhancing critical thinking in Chinese students in physical education through collaborative learning and visualization'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 20218
A systematic mapping study on teaching and learning Computational Thinking through programming in higher education8
Promoting students' creative self-efficacy, critical thinking and learning performance: An online interactive peer assessment approach guided by constructivist theory in maker activities8
Does unconscious processing benefit creative problem-solving, especially when people have been misdirected?8
Effects of ability grouping on students’ collaborative problem solving patterns: Evidence from lag sequence analysis and epistemic network analysis8
Integrating augmented reality into mathematics teaching and learning and examining its effectiveness8
Exploring students’ mathematical thinking skills in educational robotics activities8
Retraction notice to ``Peculiarities of creative thinking development within the educational piano playing course'' [Thinking Skills and Creativity Volume 42, December 2021, 100930]8
Adapting or adopting? Critical thinking education in the East Asian cultural sphere: A systematic integrative review8
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