Bu çalışmanın amacı erken çocukluk dönemindeki üstün yetenekli çocuklar hakkında algıları ölçen geçerliği ve güvenirliği kanıtlanmış bir ölçek geliştirmektir. Araştırma kapsamında toplamda 645 okul öncesi öğretmeni ve okul öncesi öğretmen adayı katılımcıdan elde edilen veriler ile geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışmaları yapılmıştır. Ölçek geçerliği için; uzaman görüşü, Açımlayıcı Faktör Analizi (AFA) ve Doğrulayıcı Faktör Analizi (DFA) gerçekleştirilmiştir. AFA için 318 öğretmen ve öğretmen adayı, DFA için 322 öğretmen ve öğretmen adayından oluşan iki farklı grup üzerinde çalışılmıştır. Verilerin toplanması için araştırmanın katılımcıları kartopu örnekleme yöntemi temel alınarak belirlenmiştir. Araştırmanın yapı geçerliği sonuçlarına göre ölçek; “Üstün Yetenekli Çocukların Özellikleri”, “Üstün Yetenekli Çocukların Belirlenmesi” ve “Üstün Yetenekli Çocukların Desteklenmesi” olmak üzere 34 maddeden oluşan üç faktörlü yapıya sahiptir. Üç faktörlü bu ölçeğin varyansın %49.9’unu açıkladığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. DFA uygulaması sonucunda ölçeğin genel olarak iyi uyum değerleri ortaya koyduğu görülmüştür. Ölçek puanlarının güvenirliğe ilişkin hesaplanan alfa değerinin tüm ölçek için .922 ve ölçeğin alt boyutları için sırasıyla .894, .742, .763 olduğu görülmüştür. Buna göre Üstün Yetenekli Çocuk Algı Ölçeği’nin geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçek olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Enderun School is a palace educational institution designed for the training of administrative and military staff in the Ottomans. This institution has an important place in the success of the Ottoman Empire. Enderun, a school where especially civil and military administrators were trained, was established to create the necessary manpower resource for the Ottoman central and provincial bureaucracy. Enderun formed the basic education unit where the official Ottoman ideology or mentality was taught and developed. In addition, it has an important place in the determination of administrative and political goals and the functioning of the main institutions of the state. Enderun School is an educational institution that has served the Ottoman Empire for nearly four hundred years. The basis of Enderun's success is the process and quality of the education given to the students admitted here, as well as selecting the talents that are needed and with the necessary virtues from a wide candidate base at various levels and stages. When Ottoman educational institutions are examined in terms of educational function, Enderun School is seen as the most critical educational institution for the state tradition. Because Enderun School was built on the training of Ottoman senior managers. Enderun School is the most organized and the most developed among the palace schools of the Ottoman period. It has many organizations and regulations of its own. Enderun School is the most organized and the most developed among the schools of the Ottoman period. It has many organizations and regulations of its own. The administrators of this school were people who were directly related to the sultan. Enderun School has an important place in the history of the education of gifted children, as it prefers and educates children with gifted intelligence and qualifications in student selection. It is thought that the determination and familiarization with the education applied here will yield beneficial results for the education of today's gifted children. With this study, the Enderun School will be examined in detail, based on the work of Tayyarzade Ata, who is one of the most important sources of the Ottoman period and who is also a student of the Enderun School, called Tarih-i Ata.

This study is carried out within the scope of aim to determine the areas and courses of interest of gifted and talented students, using a survey research model among quantitative research designs. Within this scope, data was obtained from 370 gifted students using stratified purposive sampling method with electronic forms created in two parts via Microsoft Forms. Data analysis was carried out with SPSS 22 packet data analysis program. Descriptive statistics and difference tests were utilized in the analysis of the data. As a result of the study, it was found that gifted and talented students are most interested in courses of chemistry, informatics and mathematics while courses of history, literature and philosophy were the least favored. Other findings of the study are significant differences in course interest of gifted childrenobtained according to the variables of gender, duration of education in BILSEM, type of identification area in BILSEM and type of program in BILSEM.

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