مستوى وعي الطلاب معلمي التربية الخاصة بكلية التربية الأساسية في الكويت بخصائص الموهوبين من وجهة نظرهم في ضوء بعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to identify the level of the student teachers’ awareness at the Faculty of Education in Kuwait of the characteristics of the gifted students from their viewpoints in the light of some variables.

The study adopted the descriptive method and made use of the survey for fulfilling its purpose.

The study also made use of the "behavioral characteristics of the gifted students" scale.

The population of the current study were all the students at the Department of Special Education at the Faculty of Basic Education in the field of mental excellence and learning difficulties (totaling 1050) in Kuwait.

The study was administered to a random sample consisting of 101 students from the special education department at the Faculty of Basic Education in Kuwait.

The level of awareness of pre-service special education teachers at the Faculty of Basic Education in Kuwait concerning the characteristics of the gifted was high in all dimensions (creative / leadership / motivation / educational qualities).

The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in the skills of behavioral characteristics of the talented and gifted students at the Faculty of Basic Education (Department of Special Education) in relation to all the dimensions and the total degree of the scale.

There were no statistically significant differences in the behavioral characteristics of the gifted and talented students at the Faculty of Basic Education (Department of Special Education) in the three dimensions except for the educational qualities as the differences were in favor of the students of the (Arabic language) specialization.

There were no statistically significant differences in the behavioral characteristics of the gifted students and excellent students at the Faculty of Basic Education (Department of Special Education) in the light of their university degree concerning all the dimensions and the total degree of the scale.

The university specialization of the student teachers at the Faculty of Basic Education (Department of Special Education) did not affect the degree of identifying the behavioral characteristics of talented and excellent student.