The effects of teaching strategies, methods and techniques on creative thinking: A meta-analysis study


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Dolapcioglu S., GÜRKAN B.

Uluslararası Eğitim Programları ve Öğretim Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol.10, no.1, pp.149-188, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal) identifier

Abstract

This study aims to unify the effect size of experimental studies that werecarried out to determine the effect of teaching strategies, methods andtechniques on creative thinking skills, and to find out whether this effect sizewas of significant differences for certain variables. A meta-analysis of 19studies investigating the effect of teaching strategies, methods andtechniques published between 2005-2019 on students' creative thinking skillswas conducted. The study results revealed that teaching possessed amoderate effect on students’ creative thinking skills varying considerablybased on the grades the study group and the discipline dealt with in the studyyet no meaningful difference in terms of the country it was carried at and noexperimental effect for the applied teaching strategies, methods andtechniques.