Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of primary students that study at gifted students’ school (BÄ°LSEM). A total of 156 primary school students participated in the research in Ankara BÄ°LSEM schools in 2010-2011 academic year. As data gathering tool “Environment Attitude Scale” developed by Atasoy (2005) was used in the study in the form of survey model. In data analysis phase, frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, t test and one way variance analysis (ANOVA) were used. According to the results of the study, gifted students have positive attitudes towards environment. Another result indicated that gifted students’ attitudes towards environment showed significant differences according to “gender” and “class level” variants.

Key words: Environment, environment education, environment attitudes, gifted students