The current research aimed to know the feeling of loneliness among the tenth grade
of the national centre for distinguished in Syria; as recent arrivals to the centre. They are
adolescents, who have special qualities common in terms of superiority
mental and
academic. The research also aimed to know the differences in the loneliness according to
the variables of sex, the city where the student’s family lives, the place where the student
spend the week-end and the student’s desire to join the centre. The sample consisted of
(67) students registered in the tenth grade for the academic year 2014-2015. Where the
number of the original community was (74). To reach the objectives of the research, the
scale of loneliness for ( شيبي، 2005 ) had been adopted. Resultants confirmed the presence of
high level of loneliness among students. There was not any impact to the variables of
research on the level of loneliness, except the desire to join the centre, where the student
who did not want join the centre themselves had the highest loneliness level than the
others.
This study aimed to investigating the prevalence of Cornell Critical Thinking Test
Level (x) on a sample of talented students in the national Centre for the distinguished
(NCD) in Syria, and to identify the levels of critical thinking among talente
d students, and
whether these differed according to (students’ gender, academic level), the sample
consisted of (167) talented students, the results showed that the participants exhibited an
average level of Critical Thinking, and no Significant differences were found due to
gender, the results also revealed that Significant differences were found due to academic
level for the third academic level.
