Effects of Leadership Training Program for Gifted Students of Elementary School

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 96 === The purposes of this study are aimed to design a leadership training program for gifted students of elementary school, and then to investigate the effects of the program on creativities and leaderships among those students. The methods of this study are exper...

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Main Authors: YEH, HUI-FANG, 葉惠芳
Other Authors: Li, I-ming
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82670939181249987262
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 96 === The purposes of this study are aimed to design a leadership training program for gifted students of elementary school, and then to investigate the effects of the program on creativities and leaderships among those students. The methods of this study are experiment, observation, and interview. The experiment, basing partially on pre-post quasi-experimental research which select non-randomly the senior gifted student coming from two elementary in the Taipei city, include experimental group 25 member and 30 in control group. The experimental group takes two-class-one-week curriculum for ten weeks and the control group doing it as usually without experimental process. It used the “Leadership Development Program and Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking “(TTCT) as measuring instrument, and the conducted formation examined statically by the one-factor and covariant-analysis. In the observation and interview parts, the conducted information is made by collecting student’s unit feel back sheet, student’s interview record, teaching activity observing table and teaching record, then conducting qualitative analysis by encoding the consequence as follows: First, for experimental group and control group student in the post test the leadership scores has not significant differences. Second, for the experimental group and the control group students in the post test, the test scores, including the leader basic concept, the written communication skill, the spoken language communication skill, the value clarifying, the decision-making skill, the association power skill, the question solution skill, individual special characteristic, sub-examination of a plan skill, has not significant differences. Third, for the experimental group and the control group students, in the post test the test scores of the subscales including fluency, originality, flexibility, elaboration, title, open-minded, has not significant differences. Fourth, demonstrated by the experimental group of students and teachers interview feedback sheet, this experimental curriculum receives the most students and teacher’s affirmation and the affection. The study harvest includes: (1) In curriculum, it may study: The understanding leadership skill, the enhancement of association form and the importance raising cooperation, observing and studying the strongpoint of the other people, promoting oneself confidence of leadership. (2) After participation, the curriculum of the life and the study influence including speaks has the persuasive power, understanding of using the creativity, the improvement of interpersonal relationship, controlling and suitably expressing mood, can facing the question and finding solution to solve, the improving skill, of cooperation in the group, promoting leadership self-awareness. (3) Suggestion and the idea to the curriculum include the punctual finishes class, grasping the time, little narration, more multi-activities and the extending the place to go out the classroom and surely increasing high quality the demonstration of unfolding performance, or the active review. According to the findings, the researcher proposed some suggestions of the leadership training program in the teaching and future researches.