أساليب التفكير وعلاقتها بالذكاءات المتعددة لدى الطلبة الموهوبين بمكة المكرمة

Abstract EN

This study aims to identify the relationship between thinking methods and the multiple intelligences for talented students in Middle and Secondary schools in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, to identify the differences between the talented students in terms of their preferences for the methods of thinking based on the variable of gender and school stage.

The researcher adopted the descriptive survey approach.

Study sample consists of 151 talented students of middle and secondary schools.

The researcher used Harrison Bramson Thinking Styles Scale and Rogers Multiple Intelligence Scale.

The study was applied in the first semester of academic year 20118-2019 on the talented students in middle and secondary school in Makkah Al-Mukarramah.

The following are the summary of study results: The degree of thinking methods of the talented students in Makkah came to be (intermediate), and the results revealed also that the degree of multiple intelligences of the talented male and female students in Makkah Al-Mukarramah was (intermediate).

The results revealed that there was a strong positive correlation among the different thinking styles as a whole and the multiple intelligences as a whole, the special thinking methods dimensions and the dimensions of multiple intelligences.

In light of the study results, the researcher recommended the most important recommendations as follows: the need to consider the different thinking methods, especially the prevailing ones such as the critical thinking in different methods of instruction; preparation of educational programs for the development of thinking methods in general, and the need to pay attention to the education of talented and untalented students through concluding courses, workshops, publications and other instructional means.