Thinking Skills in School

The Thinking Skills in School research group aims to understand skills like computational thinking and creativity in educational contexts and develop practices that help students and teachers foster these skills. Thinking Skills in School is a team science endeavor.

Research projects

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Children's Self-Assessment During Creative Problem Solving

This project explores how children's self-assessment during creative problem solving differs and can be explained from learner characteristics. Teacher interventions will be developed to improve children’s self-assessment accuracy.

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Supporting the Transfer of Computational Thinking in Primary School

This research project explores how primary students can transfer computational thinking from programming to other subjects, like mathematics.

Research 

At the Thinking Skills in School research group we aim to answer the question: how can thinking skills be effectively and efficiently learned and utilized in the classroom to benefit learning both in and out of school? We study (the interactions) between computational thinking, creativity, curiosity, and metacognition. Our research predominantly focuses on the primary school context, although we also explore these thinking skills at other educational levels and in teacher education.

Contact information

Visiting address
Thomas Van Aquinostraat 4
6525GD Nijmegen
024-3612459
Postal address
Postbus 9104
6500HE NIJMEGEN