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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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Fakhrou, Abdulnaser A.; Ghareeb, Sara A. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
The present study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a proposed program titled (creativity lamp) in improving students' thinking skills and academic achievement and promoting creativity among them in Kuwait. This program involves several enrichment activities. The experimental group consists from 26 students. The control group consists from 25…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Enrichment Activities, Extracurricular Activities, Creative Thinking
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Jamali, Um Albaneen Yusuf – Gifted and Talented International, 2019
Fostering creativity as an imperative 21st-century skill has attracted increasing attention by educators and researchers in last decades. Many creative activities have been suggested. The current article describes the findings from a pilot study, which investigated the impact of a LEGO robotics intervention on fostering creativity among a sample…
Descriptors: Creativity, Robotics, Elementary School Students, Web 2.0 Technologies
Noel, Lesley-Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The last two years of primary school in Trinidad and Tobago are marked by preparation for national standardized tests. The focus on preparing for these tests impacts teaching and learning strategies, as there is a shift to teacher centered classrooms and teaching strategies that depend on rote learning and memorization. This study explored how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Rural Schools, Design
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Nyet Moi Siew; Chin Lu Chong; Bih Ni Lee – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2015
This research aims to determine whether Problem-Based Learning (PBL) helps in fostering scientific creativity among fifth graders. Students' scientific creativity (SC) was investigated in the product dimensions of (a) solving scientific problems, (b) understanding scientific phenomena, (c) advancement in scientific knowledge, and (d) improvisation…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Grade 5, Creativity, Problem Solving
Scranton, Melissa Arnold – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how students think in a technological environment. This was accomplished by exploring the differences in the thinking of students while they worked in a technological environment and comparing this to their work in a paper and pencil environment. The software program TinkerPlots:…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Data Analysis
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Rezaei, Amir; Zakariaie, Manijeh – International Education Studies, 2011
Creativity has been one of the interesting issues in the field of education and has been subject of some studies. But studying the effect of using handcraft on the enhancing learners' creativity at early stages of education has not been focused on in many studies. Therefore, in this study an effort was made to explore the effect of using…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Females, Creativity, Handicrafts
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van der Meulen, Rachel T.; van der Bruggen, Corine O.; Spilt, Jantine L.; Verouden, Jaap; Berkhout, Maria; Bögels, Susan M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: Gifted children learn differently compared to their peers in several ways. However, their educational needs are often not met in regular schools, which may result in underachievement and social-emotional and behavioral problems. A pullout program, the "Day a Week School" (DWS), was offered to gifted children in 25 elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Resource Room Programs, Elementary School Students