The Relationships Between Field Dependent/İndependent Cognitive Styles And Information ve Communication Technologies Based Programs İn Gifted Education

• Published in: International journal of human sciences Vol. 12; no. 2
• Main Authors: Uçar,Erdem, Üstünel,Hakan, Civelek,Turhan, Umut,İlhan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: J-Human Sciences 01-02-2015
• Subjects: Arkeoloji; Felsefe & Psikoloji & Sosyoloji; Mimarlık ve Tasarım; Siyasal Bilimler; Turizm; Sakarya; Türkiye; special education; gifted education; human computer interaction; FD/FI cognitive styles
• ISSN: 2458-9489; 1303-5134
• DOI: 10.14687/ijhs.v12i2.3257

The research aims to investigate gifted students’ FD/FI cognitive styles and factors affecting
them like preferring to take Information ve Communication Technologies-based courses at
gifted children’s school. The study was carried out on two groups. First group consisted of 52
students identified as gifted who are attending 6th and 7th grades at the Istanbul Science ve Art
Center in Istanbul, Turkey, the second group consisted of 38 students who are not identified as
gifted and totally the study consists of 90 students. In order to collect data pertaining to this
research, Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) was used to measure Field Dependence/Field
Independence, (FD/FI). According to the findings of the research, it has been observed that
there is a significant difference between favored gifted students’ cognitive style scores and other
students’ who are not identified as gifted. There is also a significant difference between in favor
of Informationve Communication Technologies (ICT) based course taking gifted students’
cognitive style scores and other gifted students who are not taking ICT-based courses in Science
and Art Center. In contrast to these, there is not a significant differences were found on
cognitive styles in terms of gender and grade variants in both groups.