Abstract:
The main purpose of this study is to develop a test for determining verbal short-term
memories of gifted students. In the study, there were 115 gifted students, 36 non
gifted students and 37 adults that were studying a doctorate or master’s degree were
participated in. In the study, a test that consist of 9 stimuli were used. Nonparametric
statistical analyses were used in the study. Kruskal-Wallis analysis for group
comparisons and Mann-Whitney U analysis for follow-up analysis were utilized.
Spearmen’s rho correlation analysis was used for analyzing the data of the test-retest
application. According to findings of the study, the gifted students recalled more
words than their peers did in terms of words recalled both orderly and randomly. Yet,
they randomly recalled fewer words than the adults who were studying a doctorate or
master’s degree. On the other hand, the gifted students recalled more words in an
ordered way than the adults who were studying a doctorate and master’s degree.
Results of the test-retest indicated that there was a relationship at a level of .63
between the values obtained from both ordered and random recall tasks in terms of
the two applications.
