مستوى التفكير الجانبي و علاقته بأسلوب حل المشكلات لدى الطلاب الموهوبين بمدينة الطائف

الملخص EN

The study aimed to identify the relationship between lateral thinking and problem solving in gifted students in Taif governorate.

The study was conducted on a sample of (96) gifted Secon secondary school students (first secondary, secondary and third secondary) They were selected in CCO 2CO ere a simple random way.

The study used the following tools: the lateral thinking scale, the scale was prepared by the researcher, and the standard included a total of (37) units distributed over the five dimensions (alternatives, focus, challenge, random entry, inventory).

And the problem-solving scale, prepared by the researcher, which included in its final form (36) individual distributed across the five dimensions (general orientation, definition of the problem, generation of alternatives, decision-making, evaluation .The study found the following results: The responses of the sample of the study achieved a high degree in all dimensions of the lateral thinking scale and the total score of the scale.

There are also differences between students 16 years of age and 18 year old students in favor of the 16 year class in the dimension in the second dimension "focus", in the third dimension "challenge", in the fourth dimension "random entry", in the fifth dimension "inventory", in addition to the total score of the lateral thinking scale(M=4.281, SD=0.893 for item), IV rore and also there are differences between students 17-year-olds and 18-year-old students for the 17-year class in the third dimension of the challenge In addition to the total score of the lateral thinking scale for the category of "17 years".

The responses of the sample of the study achieved a high degree in three dimensions of the problem-solving scale (definition of the problem, generation of alternatives, Evaluation), and the grades of the sample of gifted students were "very high" in two imensions: first dimension "general orientation" and fourth dimension "decision making".

In addition, there are differences between 16-year-old students and 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds in favor of the 16-year class in all dimensions of the problem-solving scale, which confirms that younger students are more capable of solving (17 and 18 years) on all dimensions, except for the first dimension, and there are no differences between the categories (17, 18 years) in the first dimension.

The results of this study also indicate that lateral thinking has postitve correlation with the ability to solve problems.