Rebecca Smees

Biographic Data

ID5710833
NAMERebecca Smees
GIVEN NAMESRebecca
FAMILY NAMESmees
SIGNATURESMEES R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sussex
ORCID0000-0001-7121-2113
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Autism-Linked Traits and Creativity

    Open AccessRebecca Smees, Louisa J Rinaldi et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2025

    Several studies have investigated the relationship between autism-linked traits and creativity in adults across the general population, but far fewer in developmental populations. Here we examined how creativity in children is linked to the autism-linked traits of empathy (i.e. ability to understand and engage with another’s emotions and feelings) and sensory sensitivities (i.e. over/under-responding to incoming sensory stimuli). Our study collec…

  • Are Children with Autistic Traits More or Less Creative? Links between Autistic Traits and Creative Attributes in Children

    Open AccessRebecca Smees, Julia Simner et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2024

    Autistic traits are found throughout the general population, but their link to creative attributes has received little attention in childhood populations. In adults, autistic traits are linked to both creative benefits and disadvantages, moderated by the autistic trait and the creative domain under investigation. The current study investigates the link between autistic traits and creative attributes (creative personality traits, creative talent, …

  • Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years

    Open AccessPam Sammons, Katrina Sylva et al.ARTICLEOxford Review of Education2023

    This paper discusses the challenges facing a national evaluation of an early years intervention programme, Sure Start Children’s Centres (SSCCs), that was implemented across England in the first decade of the 21st century. The paper describes the rationale for the evaluation’s mixed methods research design and the ecological theoretical approach adopted. It investigates the SSCC policy aim of combatting the ‘impact’ of multiple disadvantage on ou…

  • What Factors Influence Children's Creative Artistic Orientation? The Novel Children's Creative Orientation Test

    Open AccessJulia Simner, Rebecca Smees et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2022

    Creative orientation is the extent to which different individuals are drawn toward creative activities (e.g., art, music). We know relatively little about child‐level creative orientation given certain testing limitations. Adult tools often measure time spent engaged in creative pursuits, but this method is unsuitable for children because their free time is often dictated by parents. To overcome this, we devised an entirely novel measure of creat…

  • Investigating the reliability and validity of the Toddler Home Learning Environment (THLE) scale

    Open AccessJames Hall, Katrina Sylva et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2021

    Home learning environments prior to school are well-known predictors of educational trajectories but research has neglected children aged under three. The new Toddler Home Learning Environment (THLE) scale is one response and this paper investigates its reliability and validity. The THLE is an adaptation of the Preschool HLE (PHLE) measure developed by the Effective Pre-School Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE) investigation in the 1990s. Th…

  • Do the Colors of Educational Number Tools Improve Children’s Mathematics and Numerosity

    Open AccessLouisa J Rinaldi, Rebecca Smees et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    This study examined how colored educational tools improve children’s numerosity (“number sense”) and/or mathematics. We tested children 6–10 years (n = 3,236) who had been exposed to colored numbers from the educational tools Numicon (Oxford University Press, 2018) or Numberjacks (Ellis, 2006), which map colors to magnitudes or Arabic numerals, respectively. In a free association task pairing numbers with colors, a subset of children spontaneousl…

  • Is there a burden attached to synaesthesia? Health screening of synaesthetes in the general population

    Open AccessDuncan A Carmichael, Rebecca Smees et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Psychology2019References: 53

    Synaesthesia has long been considered a benign alternative form of perception most often associated with positive rather than negative outcomes. The condition has been associated with a variety of cognitive and perceptual advantages, including benefits in memory, processing speed, and creativity. It is not currently recognized in the DSM ‐ IV . Recently, however, several studies have raised the question of a possible link between synaesthesia and…

  • Exploring variations in teachers' work, lives and their effects on pupils

    Open AccessPam Sammons, Christopher Day et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2007Cited by: 15References: 12

    This article outlines the research design of a large‐scale, longitudinal research study in England intended to describe and explore variations in teachers' work, lives and their effects on pupils' educational outcomes. The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and incorporated into the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) as an ‘Associate Project’, used an innovative mixed‐methods research design to create cas…

  • Play fighting and real fighting

    Open AccessP K Smith, Rebecca Smees et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior2004Cited by: 2References: 23

    This study develops a video playback methodology: children aged five to eight years viewed taped play fighting and real fighting bouts in which they were both participants and nonparticipants. Views of participants were also compared for immediate and delayed viewing. The methodology examines the criteria used to distinguish play fighting and real fighting; views concerning the characteristics of such episodes; and the motivations involved. The m…

  • Differential Secondary School Effectiveness

    Open AccessSally Thomas, Pam Sammons et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…1997Cited by: 8References: 14

    This article reports the results of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded study which focuses on the differential academic achievement of different groups of pupils. The paper describes the findings on the size and extent of school effects across 3 years (1990, 1991, 1992) for different groups of pupils (classified by gender, eligibility for free school means [FSM], ethnic group and by prior attainment). Pupils’ overall General Ce…