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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2014.15.5.25

A Study on Grade Comparison Difference Analysis of the Gifted Children in IT  

Jun, Woochun (Dept. of Computer Education, Seoul National University of Education)
Hong, Suk-Ki (Dept. of Management, Dankook University)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.15, no.5, 2014 , pp. 25-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the current information and knowledge-based society, a nation's economy power heavily depends on IT-related industry and technology. In this sense, most countries are trying to foster IT industry by developing new and innovative IT technologies. Traditionally, only a few talented persons have been leading the whole IT industry. Thus, it is very important and necessary to identify and support the gifted children in IT in early ages for development of IT industry. The purpose of this paper is to investigate study performance of the gifted children in IT for different grades. Our research is focused on especially 4th grade students, 5th grade students, and 6th grade students in elementary schools. Among various abilities of the gifted children in IT, in this paper, we are interested in programming ability and logical thinking ability. To our best knowledge, there is no research work on study performance depending on different grades of the gifted children in IT. For this purpose, the gifted students in gifted science education center attached in a university at Seoul Metropolitan Area are selected and their test scores for 8 years were collected and analyzed. The statistical analysis results show that there is no significant difference among 4th grade students, 5th grade students, and 6th grade students for programming ability and logical thinking ability. We hope that this result can help suggest and propose study contents, curriculum, principles and laws for the gifted education in IT.
Keywords
Gifted Children in IT; Grade Difference; Programming Ability; Logical Thinking Ability;
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