The level of imaginative thinking among the gifted students in the ninth and tenth grades at the excellence schools in Al-Tafila governorate as well as the relationship of that with self-efficacy among them

Abstract

This study mainly aimed at identifying the nature of the relationship between imaginative thinking and self-efficacy among the gifted students at the excellence schools in Al-Tafila governorate as well as detecting the statistically significant differences between the level of imaginative thinking and self-efficacy among the gifted students at the excellence schools according to the variables of gender and grade.

In order to achieve the study objectives, the researcher used the descriptive survey approach and the questionnaire was used as the main instrument for data collection. The study sample was chosen by using the method of total survey for the components of the study population that consisted of the ninth and tenth grades students attending regular education at the excellence schools in Al-Tafila governorate with a total of 87 male and female students . the methods of analytical and descriptive statistics were used in order to analyze the data.

The study concluded that the overall degree for imaginative thinking among the gifted students in the study sample was high, where the mean for their estimations was ( 3.74 ). The results also showed that the overall degree for  self-efficacy among the gifted students in in the ninth and tenth grades at the excellence schools in Al-Tafila governorate was high, where the mean for their estimations was ( 3.78 ). The results revealed that there is a positive relationship between imaginative thinking and self-efficacy among the gifted students at the excellence schools in Al-Tafila governorate. In the light of the study results , the study recommended about the necessity of giving teachers the necessary training about using the methods of imaginative thinking in the educational process as well as providing the suitable school and classroom environment for using them.