An analysis of factors affecting the intelligence quotient of gifted children

Losing quite significiant abilities is going to take a heavy toll for societies by reason of some excuses such as not recognising giftedness on time and not providing convenient education. As stated in the references, children who have high functioning mental skills are a vital treasure in terms of development of our country. In our study which we have made with this awareness, it has been analysed that which variations are effective in intelligence quotient (IQ) of children who are our future's assurance. Thus, this is a quantitative study in which some variations such as type of school, educational background of parents, class level, number of siblings, order of siblings, living area and region, relationship between parents (together or separated) has been analysed. In the sample group of the study, Stanford Binet intelligence test has been applied to 672 participants who applied TUZDER aged between 4-14 years and Wisc-R intelligence test has been applied to students aged between 6-14 years. 226 girls (%33,6), 446 boys (%66,4) have participated for this study. Datas have been brought in compliance with the program, SPSS 21.0 and it has been evaluated with indepence test and one-way analysis of variance. In the research result, while there is a correlation between intelligence quotient (IQ) and type of school (state-private), educational background of parents, class level,order of siblings; any significant correlation hasn't been found between IQ and living area and region, relationship between parents (together or divorced) and amount of siblings.