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Zohreh Jelodari; Zohre Mohammadi Zenouzagh; Mohammad Hashamdar – Discover Education, 2025
Competencies essential for thriving and competing globally in the 21st century include creative thinking, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, and communication (often referred to as the 4Cs). This study explores the effectiveness of Project-Based Learning (PBL), Electronic Project-Based Learning (E-PBL), and traditional learning…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Electronic Learning, Skill Development
Helena Good – Childhood Education, 2024
In a rapidly changing world, education must evolve to prepare students not just for existing careers but also for those yet to be imagined. Daydream Believers, an innovative education organization, is embracing this challenge head-on by harnessing the power of technology to assess and enhance creative thinking among students. Daydream Believers, a…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Instructional Innovation
Dogan, Yunus; Batdi, Veli – Journal of Learning for Development, 2021
An increase in research on the teaching of creativity in learning environments is being witnessed as more studies continue to reveal its effects on learning outcomes and academic achievement. Thus, any investigative attempt to examine the relevant approaches to teaching of creative thinking skills is appreciated within the creativity literature.…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Creative Thinking, Academic Achievement, Creativity
Gridos, Panagiotis; Avgerinos, Evgenios; Deliyianni, Eleni; Elia, Iliada; Gagatsis, Athanasios; Geitona, Zoi – European Educational Researcher, 2021
This study aims to examine the relation between spatial ability and creativity in Geometry. Data was collected from 94 ninth graders. Three spatial abilities were investigated: spatial visualization, spatial relations and closure flexibility. As for students' creativity, it was examined through a multiple solution problem in Geometry focusing on…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Creativity, Geometry, Problem Solving
Miller, Christine; Cruz, Laura; Kelley, Jacob – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Can creativity be taught? Multiple sources attest that the business community values creativity in potential new hires, but a signature pedagogy of teaching for creativity in business classes has not yet emerged. To contribute to a body of evidence-based practice, this study assessed the impact of several in-class activities that were deployed…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Class Activities, Undergraduate Students
Güven, Ilknur; Alpaslan, Beyza – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
In this research, it was aimed to examine the effects of interdisciplinary science activities on 5th grade students' creative problem-solving skills and 21st century skills. The study group consisted of 50 5th grade students, 26 girls and 24 boys, were studying at a public school in Ankara, Çankaya district in the 2018-2019 academic year. The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Activities, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Fleer, Marilyn – Research in Science Education, 2022
Preschool environments offer an abundance of opportunities for exploring the physical world where children can learn "engineering concepts" and "principles" (theories or laws). Yet how teachers design motivating conditions for engineering thinking has not been fully investigated. The study reported in this paper examined how…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Engineering, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
Alptekin, Ayse; Sarikaya, Aysegül; Güler, Mustafa – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The aim of the present study is to analyze the relationship between the social skills and creativity of children aged between 7 and 11 years. 312 children, aged 7-11 years and their mothers were the participants of the present study. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TToCT) Verbal and Nonverbal tasks fluency Form A was administered to the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Creativity, Elementary School Students, Mothers
Kiyici, Gülbin; Kahraman, Nurcan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
This study aims to analyze the reliability generalization of the computational thinking scale. There are five dimensions of computational thinking: creativity, algorithmic thinking, cooperativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. A Bonett transformation was used to standardize the reliability coefficient of Cronbach's alpha. A…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Generalization, Computation, Thinking Skills
Keles, Taliha – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022
The aim of this survey design study was three-fold. First, to investigate the creative problem-solving attributes of high school students. Second, to examine whether any inter-relationships exist between subdimensions of creative problem-solving attributes. Third, to determine whether high school students' creative problem-solving attributes vary…
Descriptors: High School Students, Creativity, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking
Mark Applebaum – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Students often perceive mathematics as a challenging and abstract subject, leading to disengagement and anxiety. To address these challenges, educators have increasingly turned to math games as a pedagogical tool to make learning more interactive and enjoyable. This paper explores the potential of math games, particularly Bachet's game, as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Education
Cucuk Wawan Budiyanto; Muhamad Nur Azmi Wahyudi; Indah Widiastuti; Rizka Latifah – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Computational Thinking (CT) has gained widespread attention in education as a core cognitive skill essential for solving complex problems in both academic and real-world contexts. While Indonesian educators have actively adopted CT as part of national educational reforms, questions remain about how closely current practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computation, Thinking Skills, Educational Research
Hidayah, Indriati Nurul; Irawati, Santi; Agung, Mohammad; Sa'dijah, Cholis; Subanji; Sudirman – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023
Most students practice abductive reasoning in solving mathematical problems that encourage creativity. This study analyses the process of making conjectures based on abductive reasoning. This study used a qualitative design and involved 106 undergraduate mathematics students enrolled in the mathematics course Introduction to Ring. We analyzed the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills, Concept Formation
Sarraf, Krista Speicher – Written Communication, 2023
Writing studies must conduct replicable, aggregable, and data-supported (RAD) research to understand the relationship between creativity and writing, including how writers use creative thinking to generate texts and how environmental factors mediate writers' engagement with creative thinking. This article traces research on creativity from…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Skills, Creative Writing, Creative Thinking
Saskia M. G. Weijzen; Cassandra Onck; Arjen E. Wals; Valentina C. Tassone; Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In the light of urgent global sustainability challenges, vocational education is searching for new approaches that are more just and future proof. At least a part of the answer seems to lie in so-called collaborative learning arrangements where students together with societal actors explore sustainability-related challenges. The amount of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Cooperative Learning, Sustainability

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