THE STUDY OF GIFTED STUDENTS’COMPUTATIONAL THINKING SKILLS

The aim of this study is to exmine the gifted students’skills of computational thinking at secondary school level according to gender variable. During 2017-2018 academic year, Computational Thinking Skills Scale (CTS) was applied to 26 female nd 33 male secondary students who are attending a Science and Art Center in Ankara. Computational thinking is a scale which has 22-word, five-point Likert-type with 5 subfactors. Relational scanning model is used to underline the condition of our Project. Mann Whitney U test is applied to analyze data from BDBD according to gender. By the result of this analyses, the avarage of male students’rate of creative thinking, algorithmic thinking, cooperative learning, and critical thinking skills are higher than female students’. Whereas, only the average of problem solving skill scores of female students was higher than male students. When it is evaluated in terms of significance value, in the sub-factors of creative thinking, algorithmic thinking and critical thinking has emerged a great difference in favor of men. Gifted students showed their ability to make purchases under 145 points in the selection of B？LSEM with low skill points in problem solving. In other areas, educational institutions have to take effective preventions to improve Computational thinking skills among male and female students