• Login
    View Item 
    •   DBS eSource Home
    • School of Arts
    • Psychology
    • Psychology (Bachelors Final Year Projects)
    • View Item
    •   DBS eSource Home
    • School of Arts
    • Psychology
    • Psychology (Bachelors Final Year Projects)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Gifted children in Irish primary schools : motivated or bored ?

    View/Open
    Restricted Access (953.0Kb)
    Author
    Boland, Jackie
    Date
    2007
    Degree
    BA in Psychology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10788/916
    Publisher
    Dublin Business School
    Rights holder
    http://esource.dbs.ie/copyright
    Rights
    Items in Esource are protected by copyright. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/copyright holder.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    The aim of the current study was to explore the effects that ability and gender has on children's attitudes towards school. The specific variables of interest were boredom, lack of challenge and motivation. A between-participants design with two independent variables and six dependent variables was carried out with participation of 31 gifted children and 51 average range ability children. The independent variables were ability and gender. The dependent variables were motivation (as revealed by MALS score). There were also a number of other variables from the Feldhusen & Kroll (1991) scale relating to boredom and challenge. The study was conducted in the form of a questionnaire. A two way ANOVA non-repeated measures revealed a significant difference between gifted and average range ability on the MALS test (F = 14.841; df = 1 78; < 0.01) and a significant difference between gender on the Feldhusen and Kroll (1991) scale (F = 8.880; df = 1 78; p < 0.05). Through further analysis a Chi-square test of frequencies indicated a significant difference between gifted and average range ability children's preferred subject choice, however, no significant difference was revealed between girls and boys preferred subject. Results partially supported the literature, indicating that there was no differentiation between the groups in levels of boredom, and that gifted children found school more repetitive as suggested by Feldhusen and Kroll, (1991), however, it also found that these children have maintained their positive attitudes towards school.
    Collections
    • Psychology (Bachelors Final Year Projects)

    Browse

    All of DBS eSourceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsSupervisorTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsSupervisorTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    DSpace Express is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV