Impacto de um programa de enriquecimento escolar em alunos do 2.º ciclo do ensino básico com altas capacidades

Abstract

This paper describes the application of the Odisseia enrichment program in high ability students. This program was applied during two academic years and its theoretical framework is based on Renzulli´s school enrichment model. The experimental group included 64 students selected by their high cognitive aptitudes and school achievement (80 percentile) on the other hand, 94 students from the same school grade have been taken to integrate the comparison group. On reasoning tests both groups increased their performance from pre to post-test, despite the higher increment of experimental group students in some of those subtests, this was not statistically significant. On creativity tests, the experimental group increased from pre to pos-test on originality and elaboration parameters in the figural tasks, but these gains were not verified on verbal tasks. These results may suggest a larger impact of the program on contents less assumed by the academic curriculum (figural versus verbal) and on creativity dimensions more related with originality than with fluency or flexibility.