| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育研究所 === 91 === The main purposes of this study were to design a thinking training course for 5th grade gifted students bases on de Bono''s “Six Thinking Hats”, and to investigate the impacts of ten-times training course on problem solving ability of gifted students in the elementary school.
An nonequivalent pretest-posttest experimental design was employed. The subjects of this study involved thirty-four students selected from Taipei Municipal Bi-Hu and Hu-Shi elementary schools.The experiment group consisting of 14 studnents from Bi-Hu elementary school attended a ten-units thinking training course.The instruments are the Test of Problem Solving(TOPS) and performance assessment of problem solving.Tthe data were analyzed by one-way ANCOVA.
The major finding of this study were concluded as follows:
1.The assessment results of the Test of Problem Solving(TOPS)：
(1)The were significant differences between the experiment group and the matched group on total scores（F=8.51 , p<.05）.
(2) The were significant differences between the experiment group and the matched group in the following subtests: explaining inferences（F=24.44 , P<.05）, determining causes（F=22.34，P<.05）, negative why questions（F=8.75，P<.05） and determining solutions（F=7.87，P<.05）. But no significant difference in the “avoiding problems” subtest（F=1.46，P>.05）.
Therefore, there was significant training effect on improving the problem solving ability of the experiment group.
2.The assessment results of the performance assessment:
(1)The were significant differents between the experiment group and the matched group on total scores（F=19.12， p<.05）.
(2) The were significant differents between the experiment group and the matched group in the following subtests:”applying techniques to solve problems “（F=4.32，P<.05）and “evaluating effectiveness of solutions to problems” （F=5.09，P<.05）.But no significant differences in the “identifying problem” （F=1.17，P>.05） and “collecting information” （F=0.68，P>.05）subtest.
3.The subjects reported that they enjoy the training course .
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