Examining the Academic Quality and Creativity of Gifted Students and Graduates Entering the University Before the Age of 15

The purpose of this research was to "investigate the academic quality and creativity of gifted students and graduates who entered the university before the age of 15".

The research method was descriptive, post-event and causal-comparative in terms of its practical purpose and in terms of collecting data. The statistical population in this research was gifted students and graduates who entered the university before the age of 15 and their equivalents in terms of year of entry, grade point average, and job type. The sampling method was non-random and accessible. The two groups responded to Abedi's creativity assessment questionnaire (1996) and the researcher-made questionnaire of educational quality. Frequency distribution tables, bar chart, mean and standard deviation, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, one-sample t test and multivariate analysis of variance were used for data analysis. The data of this research was analyzed using Spss software version 22.

The results of the analysis showed that the average of academic quality and creativity and their subscales in both groups was significantly higher than the expected average.

The average academic quality and creativity in the gifted group was significantly higher than the normal group.