Abstract:

The use of concept maps, word networking and mind mapping techniques together, and the effect of the mentioned application on the writing attitudes and anxieties of gifted students were tried to be investigated in this study, which the researchers describe as the "Write Your Connotations" tactic. In the study, descriptive sequential design, one of the mixed research methods, was used and qualitative data were collected at the end of the study in order to explain the obtained quantitative data better. The study was conducted with a pre-test and post-test single-group design among weak experimental designs. The study group of this research consists of 40 gifted students studying in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades in Bingöl city in 2019-2020 academic year. While creating the study group, one of the purposeful sampling methods, "sequential simultaneous mixed method sampling" was used. From the data obtained at the end of the study, it was concluded that the quantitative and qualitative results coincide with each other and based on these results, the "Write Your Connotations" tactic, which consists of the combination of word networking, mind maps and concept map, has a positive effect on the writing attitudes and anxieties of gifted students.

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