Measuring the Behavioral Characteristics of the Gifted using Renzulli Scale on a Sample of Primary Stage Pupils (First Stage)

Abstract

The current research aims at measuring the behavioural characteristics of the gifted using Renzulli Scale according to several variables (gender, age, grade). It  used a sample of gifted students enrolled on As-Suwayda’s schools for the academic year 2020-2021. The sample was made of 336 students,(167)  male and (169) female. The researcher used Renzulli Scale and the following findings were reached:

The level of behavioural characteristics among the sampled pupils, as measured by Renzulli Scale, was found to be of a medium degree in all of the Scale’s sub-measurements, with percentages ranging between 52.08% for the sub-measurement (learning), and 65.18% for the sub-measurement (flexibility in thinking). It was also found that there are no statistically-significant differences between the average scores of the sampled pupils according to the gender variable, whereas statistically-significant differences were found between the mean scores of sampled pupils according to the age variable in favour of the older age. The research findings also revealed that there are statistically-significant differences between the mean scores of the sampled pupils according to the academic level variable in favour of the higher grade.