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Received: 21 January 2024

Accepted: 28 October 2024

First Online: 5 November 2024

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: This study was conducted by the local ethical guidelines for research involving human participants. The research was approved on November 2, 2021, with letter reference no. (AR 2021-11-09) by the Institutional Review Board of Faculty of Education Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China. This research involves the completion of a quasi-experimental effort comprised of training related to creative thinking skills via the CoRT thinking program. The participants of this study include elementary school teachers teaching English subjects and the 8th-grade students of English subject classes in public schools. All the study participants were informed about the purpose of the research, and the necessary permission was taken before data collection. The researcher obtained the participant consent from parents and the School Head before the commencement of the study. The information collected was used only for academic purposes and kept confidential.

: Informed consent was gathered from all participating Pakistani public school students. Confidentiality was maintained by not requesting names or any other information that would identify the students involved. The subjects were informed of their right to withdraw from the investigation at any time. Parents’ and school principals’ consent was taken as well.