The purpose of this study was to design active e-learning models and applications to develop the creative imagination skills of preschool children. However, before the real study can be done the researcher has been doing a meta analysis study on creative imagination skills. This meta analysis study was include two objectives. Therefore, (1) to defines the creative imagination skills and (2) to identify the antecedent factors of creative imagination skills that influenced the achievement amongs the pre-school students. Through the meta analysis study, the researcher has been analyzed about fifty articles that related to this research. It is important to do a critical review before proceed to the real study, so that the researcher will have a clear picture about the research. The main contribution of this meta analysis study is to get a brief and clear information on the creative imagination skills among the preschools students in Malaysia.
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