the research of gifted students' attitudes towards science and technology course

The aim of this study is to investigate heir attitude on science and technology education of gifted children in Science arts center (SAC) and to reveal the factors influencing these attitudes. This study was carried out with scan pattern of quantitative research methods. The research universe consists of gifted students of the 5th, 6th, and 7th grade registered to Science-Arts Centers in Turkey. The research sample consists of 266 students registered in Science and Art Centers in Muş, Elazığ, Malatya, Ankara, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Trabzon and Antalya. Developed science and technology course attitude scale in the literature and a personal information form were used as data collection tools. The obtained results indicate that there is not a meaningful correlation between gifted students' attitudes to 'science and technology and their gender (p = 0.888 > 0.05), their age groups F (3-262) = 2.506, p> .05, their mothers' education levels F (4-261) =. 643, p> .05, their fathers' education levels F (4-261) =, 697 p> .05, the total monthly income of the family F (2-263) =,261 p> .05, the level of class F (2-263) = 2.193, p> .05. Also looking at the average, when students' attitudes to science and technology education were separated as groups, which have low, medium and high level attitude, it was found as 24 students of the group in the low-level, 209 students of the group in the medium-level and 33 students of the group in the upper-level.