Gifted or Old? Relative Age and Gifted Program Participation in BILSEM

Ali Unal () and Abdullah Sürücü ()
Additional contact information
Ali Unal: Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet Keleso?lu Education Faculty
Abdullah Sürücü: Necmettin Erbakan University, Ahmet Kelesoglu Education Faculty

No 5407924, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The relative age effect means the differentiation of success on the part of students of the same class because of the difference in their birth months, or the differentiation of success on the part of children of the same group because of maturity but not skills. Students who are identified as gifted are specially educated at centers called Science and Art Center (BILSEM) in addition to education they receive with their peers. This study aims to determine whether the relative age has a role in selection of students for BILSEM's. The data were collected from Konya Science and Art Center in Turkey. In the center, 534 selections were conducted until 2015-2016 academic year. Comparisons were made based on the frequency of birth dates of the registered students, Chi-square Goodness of Fit Test, and monthly and quarterly periods. The test results show that the relative age plays a significant role in selection of students at BILSEM's both on monthly (?² = 57,96, p

Keywords: Relative age effect; gifted program; Science and Art Center (BILSEM) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2017-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 32nd International Academic Conference, Geneva, Jul 2017, pages 237-237

Downloads: (external link)
https://iises.net/proceedings/32nd-international-a ... =54&iid=039&rid=7924 First version, 2017

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:iacpro:5407924

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klara Cermakova ().