The Comparison of academic engagement, emotional creativity and academic self-efficacy in gifted male and female students.

The present study was conducted to compare the academic engagement, emotional creativity and academic self-efficacy in gifted male and female students.

This study is a comparative cross-sectional study. The population of this research is the foundation of all gifted students of first, second and third high school in Ardabil in 94-93 school year. That among these 60 gifted students were girls and 60 gifted student boys, finaly 120 cace were selected randomly. For information collected was used from questionnaires Schafeli (2002), list of creativity Emotional Averill (1999) and academic self-efficacy questionnaire Mac Elroy & Banting (2002). Data were analyzed by the SPSS 20 software using descriptive statistical methods (mean and standard deviation), and inferential statistical methods (Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

The results show that the gifted female students excel in academic engagement and components of absorbing and devotion themselves, whereas the gifted male student excel in emotional creativity and components of innovation, readiness and effectiveness - originality, Between the two groups there was no significant difference in the academic self-efficacy.

According to the results, it is essential stakeholders of education in the use of educational policies and teaching practices, gender and individual differences of student in mind.