The effect of academic risk taking levels on the problem solving ability of gifted students

Abstract

The ability of Academic risk taking is a critical component which considers academic success at the top level. To increase the academic success to a higher level needs adaptation to the present conditions. Adaptation will be possible via problem solving. In this study it has been described that the relationship between the levels of taking academic risk of gifted student with their levels of problem solving abilities. The study data is collected by using data collection tools which are the scale of academic risk taking one of which was developed by Clifford (1991) and was adapted to Turkish by Korkmaz (2002) and another scale of problem solving skills which was developed by Yaman (2003). The opinions of totally 103 students who answered the questions were taken. According to the results; the conclusion was "academic risk taking levels and problem solving ability level of gifted students is positively high. There is a significant relationship between them". (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved