BULGARIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION POLICY

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Authors: M. A. Yusuf, C. O. Agbara

The study examined the teachers' skills in identification and management of secondary school students' talent in Ondo State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design for the study. The population of the study com-prised 3462 secondary schools' teachers in Ondo Central Senatorial District while the sample consisted of 360 teachers. Multistage sampling technique was used to select the sample. The first stage was a simple random technique to select three Local Government Areas from six Local Government Areas in the District. Proportionate sampling technique was used to select 24 secondary schools from the three Local Government Areas selected. The last stage in-volved using proportionate stratified random sampling to select a total of 360 teachers. Data for the study were collected using questionnaire tagged Teachers' Shills in Identifying Students' Talents Questionnaire (TSITQ). Data collected were analysed using frequency count and simple percentages. The results showed that the predominant skill used by teachers in identifying students' talents were Guidance and Counselling, Motivation, Creative teaching and Pedagogical. It was found out that motivational strategy (in form of gifts, prizes and scholarship) was predominantly used by teachers in managing students' talents followed by independent study, creative teaching and pro-gramme planning. Based on the findings of the study it was therefore recommended that teachers should improve on their strategies such as independent study, creative teaching, individualised instructions and programme planning in managing secondary school students' talents.

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Authors: V. N. Anunobi, A. I. Gambari, M. B. Abdullahi, T. O. Alabi

The study examined the Effects of Web-Based Instruction on Junior Secondary School Students' Retention in Basic Technology in Nigeria. Quasi-experimental design (pretest-posttest, non-equivalent, non-randomized control group design) was adopted in this study. 119 Junior Secondary School class two (JSS II) students were drawn from four co-educational registered private secondary schools in Minna Metropolis, Nigeria. Three research questions with corresponding hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Basic Technology Achievement Test (BTAT) consists of 50 items, multiple choice objectives question was used for data collection. Web-based instruction (WBI) and BTAT were validated by education technology experts, computer experts, industrial and technology education lecturers, secondary school basic technology teachers and basic technology students. BTAT was subjected to pilot test and 0.90 reliability coefficient was obtained using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. BTAT was administered on students in experimental and control groups and data obtained were analyzed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to test the hypotheses. The results of the study indicated that students exposed to Web-Based Instruction retained basic technology concepts than their counterparts exposed to Conventional Teaching Method. There was no significant difference between the mean retention scores of male and female student exposed to Web-based instructions; high, medium, and low achievers' students exposed to WBI retained the concept of Basic Technology equally. Based on the above findings it was recommended that Web-Based Instruction should be used to improve students retention in Basic Technology.

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Authors: B. V. Toshev

The literature on the life and work of Professor Assen Zlatarov, a chemist, is huge. However, in this massive of papers and books, interpretations or political suggestions prevailed. The aim of this paper is to present the "unknown" Zlatarov showing his forgotten papers, published in 1930s in rare or inaccessible sources.

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Authors: B. V. Toshev

Дамянов, Д. (2015). Будители, наука, образование: статии и интервюта (1990-2014). София: изд. Захарий Стоянов, 615 с. ISBN 978-954-09-0924-0