Investigation of gifted students' skills of saying 'no' through neural networks

Volkan Duran, Hüseyin Mertol and Gizem Yurtdaş

African Educational Research Journal
Published: October 5 2020
Volume 8, Issue 4
Pages 703-713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.84.20.153

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the primary and middle school students' skills of saying 'no' in terms of having special ability, gender, location and age. The study was designed based on the correlational survey model. Population of the study was selected in accordance to convenient sampling method because of time and fund limitations for doing reseach with populations having more number of participants or individuals specially chosen based on specific criteria. It consists of 259 gifted students in different age groups ranging from 7 years old to 13 years old studying centers of science and arts (BİLSEM) in Iğdır and Isparta provinces in Turkey.It should be noted that the students in these centers are chosen based on particular intelligence and ability tests. First finding of our study shows that students having special ability have higher points in the context of refusal dimension but lesser points in terms of resistance dimension. Second finding of our study is that there is no significant difference between students for the skills of saying 'no' in terms of gender. Third finding of our study shows that students in Iğdır have higher points in the context of refusal dimension but lesser points in terms of resistance dimension. Fourth of our study shows that students who are 10 and 11 years old have higher points than others in the context of refusal dimension and students who are 13 years old have higher mean ranks in terms of resistance dimension. Finally, the neural network model shows that the most important factor is to have special ability, the second significant factor is the location, the third one is the age and the last one is the gender which is compatible with our finding. The result showing that the most important factor is to have special ability implies that there is a strong relationship between disposition of saying “no” as a result of critical thinking disposition with having special ability.

Keywords: The skill of saying 'no', critical thinking skill, gifted students, neural networks.

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