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Sarah Abdullah Nasser Alkathiri; Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet; Edward Dutton – Cogent Education, 2024
The importance of programs that develop the thinking skills of students has been emphasized by many educational researchers. However, the majority of these studies have focused on developing these skills of gifted students and of students in public schools. Few have focused on developing and strengthening such skills in students with learning…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Skill Development
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Su, Yu-Sheng; Shao, Mingming; Zhao, Li – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Scratch, a kind of visual programming software, has been widely used in instruction for primary school children. Scratch constructs a digital world for children to design, develop, and create coursework in which their creative thinking is fostered. Different instructional methods have been designed and implemented to stimulate children's creative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Computer Software
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Calkin, Joshua; Karlsen, Megan – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
Destination Imagination is a creative problem solving competition for school-aged children that encourages creative growth and long-term problem solving skills. These skills are important for young children as they can be directly related to future success in school, home, and the workplace. This extracurricular activity has impacted 1.5 million…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creativity, Skill Development, Problem Solving
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Rabanos, Natalia Larraz; Torres, Pedro Allueva – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: The aim of this study is to present an intervention program for creative skills development applied to a group of students of lower Secondary Education. Method: This program was applied in a school in Zaragoza (Spain) during the 2008-09 academic year. The study used a repeated-measures, quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Brown, Donna Jeanne Browder – 1970
A method for improving the vocabulary development of low-income children was studied. The method involved the used of specially devised toy situations as a medium of teacher-student communication. Two representative Toy-Talk Contexts were developed. Twenty-four children attending kindergarten at an inner-city school were the subjects in the study,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Creative Thinking, Disadvantaged Youth, Kindergarten Children