The Research Review of Convergent Thinking

By aid of the literature analysis, and the statistics, 140 aggregated-thinking-related articles published during the period of 1984 till so far in the periodicals like the E-education Research, The Science of Psychology, Psychology Development and Education, etc.were subjected to a data analysis from the five aspects of publication time, author’s unit, key elements of research, research methods, and research objects.it is found that the research field of polymerization thinking is gradually expanding, as the research expands in depth and width, and substantial progress is made in both practice and theory.But still, there are some disadvantages:research accuracy and empirical research are not adequate;research methods are mostly summaries of personal experience;research focused primarily on the cultivation of students’ abilities and application of these abilities in subject teaching, and the related researches on the evaluation of aggregation thinking ability are too few;and the research subjects were mostly middle school students, college students, yet pupils, teachers and even deaf and dumb students are ignored.Finally some suggestions are put forward for the research of aggregation thinking ability, and the future research trends are also discussed