Cognitive and Emotional Needs of the Gifted Students From Themselves Perspective: Survey

Fatima Eid Zaid AL- Adwan, Majed Mohammad Al-khayat

Abstract


This study aimed at investigates the cognitive and emotional needs for the gifted students and there relationships with variables (sex, place of residence, and stage for talented students) in the Educational Directorate of Salt government schools in Jordan. The study has been applied on a 40 talented students. The rustles of the study shown that there is an emotional need of the students more than the cognitive needs in general. The results showed that there are emotional needs for students more than the cognitive needs. The mean of students performance on the paragraphs of emotional needs in general is higher than in the post-cognitive needs, The results also showed that there is a significant statistical difference in terms of students’ sex and educational stage.


Keywords


Cognitive needs; Emotional needs; Gifted students

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