أثر الأنشطة اللاصفية الموجهة في تنمية الحاجة إلى المعرفة و التوجهات المستقبلية لدى الطلاب الموهوبين بالمرحلة الثانوية

Abstract EN

The current study aims at developing oriented non-classroom activities, and also to discover their effectiveness in developing the need for knowledge and future orientations of high school gifted students.

The subjects of the study consisted of 19 students from the first and second grades of Al- anjal civil secondary schools at Al-Ahsa in Saudi Arabia.

The sample of the study were selected according to the criteria of the National Center for measurement and evaluation to identify gifted students which include: (1) ) being among the top 5 percentile in the ability test designed for the Saudi secondary students, (2) academic achievement ranges from 90-100%.

The administration of the program lasted for 8 weeks.

The researcher prepared and administrated oriented non-classroom activities, the scale of need for knowledge, and the scale of future orientations had been applied to the participating students at the beginning and at the end of these activities.

The results of Wilcoxon test for correlated groups showed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pre and post application on the need for knowledge, on the dimensions of (planning for the future, perspective of time, and predicting the consequences of the future), and the overall degree of future orientations.

Recommendations and suggestions for further research were provided based on these study results.