Scientific Inventive Thinking Skills among Primary Students in Brunei

The main purposes of this study are to determine the inventive thinking skills of students in Brunei and to compare the inventive thinking skills with regards to gender and school location. This study, which employed cross sectional surveys method involved some 500 Primary school students from Brunei. Analysis of the finding revealed that primary students in Brunei demonstrated low mean scores on creativity, higher order thinking and sound reasoning. It is also shown that there exist statistically significant differences in inventive thinking skills among students with regard to gender and school location.