英文摘要 |
"Hypothesis testing is an important cognitive ability to humans, which is highly related to concept formation, reasoning, problem solving as well as to creativity. The purpose of this study was to explore whether there were any differences in their ability to hypothesis testing between gifted and regular high school students. This study recruited 56 high school students from the middle region of Taiwan, including 18 students gifted in language and art, 19 students gifted in math and science, and 19 regular students. Using a self-made test with 12 hypothesis-testing tasks, the performances of the three groups in hypothesis testing were further analyzed. Research findings indicated that: (a) there were no differences in the number of correct items among the three groups; (b) when compared to the performance of regular students in numeral tasks, students gifted in language and art made more trials while students gifted in math and science more frequently used mutually embedded strategies; (c) students gifted in math and science used less positive testing strategies in numeral tasks than regular students and students gifted in language and art did, and had less unreasonable hypotheses in word tasks than regular students." |