Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Project Training Prepared for the Project Production Process of Gifted Students

Abstract

In this study, a project training program for gifted students was prepared and its effectiveness was evaluated. The study was conducted using a simple experimental design, one of the quantitative approaches, with 9 students of the Individual Talents Realization (IFT) group who had not received project training or written a project report before. The participants voluntarily participated in the workshops arranged by the researcher in a Science and Art Center (SAC) in Trabzon in the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year. The data collection instruments were the student guidance materials and the project monitoring and evaluation form developed by the researcher. The responses of students were evaluated to determine the level of fulfillment of the criteria for each project step. The results revealed that the gifted students did not have problems in reporting the literature review and the summary of the literature for the project topics by effectively scanning scientific resources in the planning phase after the project training. Still, they had difficulty in reporting the method section of their projects in the implementation phase, and they were insufficient in discussing the products or the data they obtained as well as reporting the results they reached in the evaluation phase. To obtain more efficient results from the training process to be prepared, it is recommended to increase the number of activities or the duration of implementation.