Attitudes of high school principals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, toward integrating gifted students into regular classrooms

Abstract EN

The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the attitudes ofhigh school principals towards integrating female gifted students into regularschools.

This study was designed to answer the following main question: whatattitudes do the high school principals hold about the integration of female giftedstudents into regular classrooms? A total of 98 high school principals haveparticipated in the project.

The study was conducted during the first semester of2017-2018 school year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Instructions were provided to allthe participants directly regarding what the participants were to do with theresearch instrument.

An attitudinal survey was the instrument that was used tocollect data during the study.

Overall findings revealed that the school principalsbelieved that integrating gifted students into regular schools had a lot of advantages(M = 4.42, SD = .64).

Also, the findings showed that perceptions were similaracross almost all the demographic variables.

Perceived advantages, however,differed as a function of school size, t(95) = -2.37, p = .020.