Thu 18.09.2014 - 13:45-14:15 - Foyer
The Relationship between Mathematical and Scientific Productivity Poster
Presenter: Nazmiye Nazli Ozdemir
Throughout the history of gifted education, science and mathematics have been crucial issues because of their contribution to human development and technology. Although many research studies related to science and mathematics in the area of giftedness have been conducted up to now, it still maintains importance in this area. Because, the reason for presence of the digital era is undoubtedly science and mathematics. In fact, now the most important one is productivity of science and mathematics in this era. Herein one question comes to mind; “is there a relationship between scientific productivity and mathematical productivity?” In this study, in order to examine the relationship between scientific and mathematical productivity, Creative Mathematical Ability Test (C-MAT) and Creative Scientific Ability Test (C-SAT) were administered to sixth grade gifted students who participated a program for scientifically and mathematically talented students. C-MAT is composed of five subtests in the area of numbers, geometry, measurement, algebra and statistics. On the other hand C-SAT is included five subtest in the area of biology, chemistry, ecology and interdisciplinary science. Both C-MAT and C-SAT contain 5 open-ended problems which measure fluency, flexibility and creativity quotient (CQ). In this study, the total scores of each tests were compared. The participants of the study included 169 sixth grade students. The data were obtained from sixth grade talented students in the year of 2008-2014. The correlation between mathematical and scientific productivity scores was calculated. The results of the study will be shared in detail with the participants at the conference.