Özet:

One of the primary purposes of science and art centers (BİLSEM) in Turkey is to ensure that gifted students who receive education in these centers gain an inquiring, productive and critical perspective. In this context, the study aimed to measure the effect of inquiry-based activities and applications carried out in the geography course on the development of gifted students' self-efficacies in geographic inquiry skills. A quasi-experimental design was used in the study. The study group consisted of 31 gifted students attending the BİLSEM in the ….. district of Ankara. A total of six activities were used in the applications, which continued for seven weeks. The Geographic Inquiry Process Skills Scale was used as the data collection tool, and the data were analyzed using dependent and independent samples t-tests. The results of the students' pre-tests did not show a significant difference according to gender, mother's and father's occupational characteristics. Post-test mean scores showed a significant difference in favor of gifted female students. The self-efficacies of female students in geographic inquiry skills increased more than those of male students. According to the occupational characteristics of the students' parents, their skill self-efficacies did not show a significant difference in the post-test. After the experimental study, students' t-tests of pre-test and post-test scores on their self-efficacies in geographic inquiry skills showed a significant difference. It was concluded that the activities used in this study improved the inquiry skills of gifted students. Accordingly, it is recommended that the six inquiry-based activities should be used by geography teachers to improve the geographic inquiry skills of BİLSEM students.