Statistical Approach and Documentary Metanalysis to Measure the Impact of New Teaching Methods in Pupils of Elementary Schools

Abstract

Statistical approach and Documentary metanalysis are methods which we have used to conduct the present study. Statistical approach is referred to Bayesian-Laplace rule used to estimate the impact /outcomes of new teaching methods on creative/ critical thinking of pupils and their high performance.  Documentary analysis is referred to a systematic process for evaluating documents-16 literature sources/cases. In other words the study deals with the role of modern teaching/learning methods in Greek elementary schools and their outcomes. Essentially we looked for to investigate whether the using of innovative teaching/learning methods have positive results in Greek elementary schools. To this aim, Bayesian-Laplace and Documentary-analysis tools used 16 key-relative cases, we assess and predict the impact of new teaching methods on critical/creative thinking and learning of pupils. The main advantage of our combined method is the fact that, despite the lack of large number of data/cases, the two tools gave us an accurate enough outcome of the improvement in pupils’ performance. The data/information/cases were collected from the 16 relative cases and ten unofficial interviews from primary school teachers, working in different school-units and different but innovative teaching methods. The ten unofficial interviews were conducted as free and open-ended questions in order to help us to get useful information about the creative/critical thinking strategies the teachers used in classrooms and outdoor teaching. Finally, the originality of the work lies in the fact that through an analysis of 16 relevant works/cases, we could to result in outcome expressed as percentage of positive impact on pupils’ critical and creative thinking.