Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine research and trends in technology usage in gifted child published in selected professional sources during the period 1990-2019. Content and Citation analysis was used in this study to investigate documents related to technology usage in gifted child researches, which were indexed in the Web of Science. “Technology” and “gifted” (high abilities) related keywords were used jointly in the search for documents. There was a total of 240 documents judged to be relevant to the field of technology usage in gifted child education and were analyzed. However, as a result of individual review of the sources, 40 documents that were not relevant for the purpose of the research were excluded from the scope of the re-search. As a result of this study, it can be seen that the documents and the number of citations related to the technology usage in gifted child education field has been continuously increasing since 2005. It is recommended that a combination of citation analysis and other types of analyses should be used in future research studies.
Highlights
Technological advances have expanded the limits of human knowledge
The purpose of this study is to examine researches and trends in technology usage in gifted child published in selected professional sources during the period 1990-2019
Content and Citation analysis was used in this study to investigate documents related to technology usage in gifted child researches, which were indexed in the Web of Science
Summary
Technological advances have expanded the limits of human knowledge. Technology has been used in the field of education (Umachandran, Corte, Amuthalakshmi, James, Said, Sawicka, Gaudio, Mohan, Refugio, Aravind, & Jurcic, 2019; Yildiz, Alkan & Cengel, 2019; Baglama, Haksiz & Uzunboylu, 2018). Education, which responds to almost every person, is connected to life at every stage of life from birth to death for gifted students (Aruk, 2008). The curriculum to be applied to these individuals should be different, deep and long-lasting according to their characteristics and in a way meeting their educational needs (Hırça & Bayrak, 2013; Sahmurov, Aylak, Bedirhanbeyoglu & Gulen, 2017; Shubina, & Kulakli, 2019). Technological research on gifted individuals is considered in the literature under the concept of assistive technology (Catak & Tekinarslan, 2008). The concept of assistive technology in gifted education can be defined as all kinds of tools and materials, whether or not developed for commercial purposes, to increase, maintain or physically improve the functional abilities of gifted individuals (Brackenreed, 2008)
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