Original scientific paper
RECOGNIZING MATHEMATICALLY GIFTED CHILDREN BY USING EXPERT SYSTEMS', TEACHERS', AND PSYCHOLOGISTS' ESTIMATIONS
Margita PAVLEKOVIĆ
; Faculty of Teacher Education, Osijek
Marijana ZEKIĆ-SUŠAC
; Faculty of Economics, Osijek
Ivana Đurđević
; Faculty of Teacher Education, Osijek
Abstract
A scientifically approved psychological finding of gift is usually
not available to all schools. In order to obtain an accurate and
early detection of mathematically gifted children, an intelligent
expert system MathGift is proposed to assist teachers in making
decision about a child's gift in mathematics in the fourth grade of
elementary school. Besides mathematical competencies, the system
includes other components while deciding about the giftedness
in mathematics, such as cognitive components of gift, personal
components that contribute to gift development, strategies
of learning and exercising, as well as some environmental factors.
A survey was conducted at ten elementary schools where the expert
system's, psychologists' and teachers' estimates were obtained
for each child in the sample. The paper discusses some differences
among the estimations of children's mathematical gift obtained
by the ES, psychologists and teachers. The results show that the
expert system can be suggested as a methodological tool to assist
teachers in making decision about children's gift in mathematics.
Keywords
expert system; mathematical gift; psychologists' estimation of gift; teachers' estimation of gift; t-test; McNemar test
Hrčak ID:
55456
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2010.
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