The relationships between field dependent/independent cognitive styles and information & communication technologies based programs in gifted education

Authors

  • Hakan Üstünel
  • Erdem Uçar Trakya University
  • Turhan Civelek Kırklareli University
  • İlhan Umut Trakya University

Keywords:

FD/FI cognitive styles, gifted education, human computer interaction, special education

Abstract

The research aims to investigate gifted students’ FD/FI cognitive styles and factors affecting them like preferring to take Information & 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 &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 Information& 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.

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Author Biographies

Hakan Üstünel

Hakan Üstünel has a PhD from Trakya University department of computer engineering. He is a member of the Istanbul Science and Art Center in Turkey. His research interests include haptics, virtual environments, human computer interaction interfaces, and gifted education modeling

Erdem Uçar, Trakya University

Erdem Uçar  received pH.D.degree in computer engineering from Trakya University. His research interests include medical informatics and Management Information Systems. He is a member of the faculty in computer engineering at Trakya University 

Turhan Civelek, Kırklareli University

Turhan Civelek  received a PhD in computer engineering from Trakya University

His research interests include simulation, virtual reality, robotics, haptic device and haptic feedback through brain machine interfaces. He is a member of the faculty in software engineering at Kırklareli University 

İlhan Umut, Trakya University

Ilhan Umut  received pH.D.degree in computer engineering from Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey, in 2008 and 2011, respectively.  He is currently Assistant Professor in the Engineering Faculty, Trakya University.His research interests include biosignal processing and machine learning.

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2015-08-06

How to Cite

Üstünel, H., Uçar, E., Civelek, T., & Umut, İlhan. (2015). The relationships between field dependent/independent cognitive styles and information &amp; communication technologies based programs in gifted education. Journal of Human Sciences, 12(2), 266–277. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/3257

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Computer Education and Instructional Technologies

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