An investigation of gifted secondary school students' feelings of community and difficulties they experience in the online learning environment in terms of various variables

The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between online learning challenges and online community feelings for students with special talent and normal development in various variables. The example of the research designed in the Betimsel research model consists of 842 students who have been trained online in 2020-2021 academic years and are studying at secondary school level. The data collection phase uses the scale of the challenges experienced by students who have been trained in online learning, the scale of online learning community feeling and the personal information form. The relationship between the online learning challenge scale and the online community sense scale in the analysis of the data has been studied through correlation analysis. The analysis of the data uses descriptive statistics, Kruskall Wallis, Mann Whitney U, standalone sample t-test and ANOVA testing based on the status of normal distribution assumptions. The results of the study have been found to be a significant difference between the school type of students with special talent and normal development, the skill area that special talented individuals are diagnosing, and the hardware that online learning students are using in online training, from the scale of their challenges. The points taken by special talent students on the scale of online learning community feeling have been found to be higher than their normal evolving peers. The points taken from the community sense scale in normal development students differ significantly from the classroom level, the hardware used in online learning and the pre-Covid-19 online learning experience. Special talent students have found that the points from the community scale are significantly different than the number of people they take online courses with.