EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES OF MUSICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS: PARENTS' PERCEPTION

The focus of this research is aimed at looking at the perceptions of parents of musically gifted students about their children's extracurricular activities and determining the differences between the parents' gender and their perception about their children's extracurricular activities. A total of 95 parents of musically gifted students participated. The results show that parents of musically gifted students are generally satisfied with how much their children are involved in extracurricular activities, while mothers are more satisfied with the level of involvement of their children in extracurricular activities at school. Mothers more positively evaluate the competence of teachers for the organization of extracurricular activities that they organize in the context of students' giftedness, and their opinions are more positive regarding the variety of extracurricular activities that teachers and professional associates organize, which do not concern students' musical giftedness. There are no statistically significant differences between the gender of parents and their opinion about the variety of extracurricular activities that teachers and professional associates organize in the context of giftedness.