A Study of the Cognitive Potentials in Basic Science and Technology of Nigerian Adults with Varying Socio-Economic Status
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Abstract
In this study, efforts have been made to investigate the level of awareness in science and technology among selected adults in Lagos metropolis. A total of one hundred and twenty-five adults, seventy-eight males and forty-seven females randomly selected, formed the population sample. One composite questionnaire containing a hundred questions on different science areas vis-a-vis: health science, local food science, management and control of home hazards, gadgetry science, environmental science and basic facts in science and technology was the major instrument for collection of raw data. A supplementary interview schedule was drawn up based on the questionnaire and used for clarification of opinions. Both instruments were validated by experts. The data obtained were analyzed using ranking, percentage, correlation and chi-square computations. The major findings were that: all adults, irrespective of their socio-economic class need one form of science and technology or the other for self-realization; the nature of adult science and technology need for self-awareness is not related to one’s occupation and socio-economic status; there is a general desirability among adults of all classes to learn those aspects of science and technology they are deficient in; the majority of adults showed preference for distance education, that is learning through television, radio and newspapers to a more effective teacher-learner interaction or face-to-face learning process. A clarion call has therefore been made for the commencement of adult science and technology education in an informal setting, with the existing adult education centres expanded to accommodate this all important scheme for national development. Key words: Cognitive potentials; Socio-economic status; Nigerian adults; Science; Technology; Population sample Resume: Dans cette etude, des efforts ont ete faits pour enqueter sur le niveau de la sensibilisation en science et technologie chez les adultes selectionnes dans la metropole de Lagos. Une somme de 125 adultes, 78 hommes et 47 femmes selectionnees au hasard, ont forme l'echantillon de population de cette etude. Un questionnaire contenant une centaine de questions sur des differents domaines scientifiques, y compris la science de la sante, la science de l'alimentation locale, la gestion et le controle des dangers a la maison, la science des gadgets, la science de l'environnement et des faits de base en sciences et technologie ont ete l'instrument majeur pour collectionner des donnees de premiere main. Un calendrier d'entrevue supplementaire a ete etabli sur la base du questionnaire et utilise pour la clarification des opinions. Ces deux instruments ont ete valides par des experts. Les donnees obtenues ont ete analysees en utilisant le classement, le pourcentage, la correlation et le chi-carre calculs. Les conclusions principales etaient les suivantes: tous les adultes, independamment de leur classe socio-economique, ont besoin d'une forme de science et technologie pour la realisation de soi; le besoin de conscience de soi des adultes n'est pas lie a sa profession ou son statut socio-economique; il y a un desir general chez les adultes de toutes les classes pour apprendre des aspects de la science et technologie dans lesquels ils sont deficients; la majorite des adultes a montre leur preference pour l'enseignement a distance, c'est- a-dire l'apprentissage a travers la television, la radio et les journaux, a une interaction plus efficace de l'enseignant-apprenant ou un processus d'apprentissage face-a-face. Un appel a donc ete fait pour le commencement de l'education en science et technologie des adultes dans un cadre informel, avec les centres existants d'education des adultes agrandis afin d'accueillir ce dispositif important pour le developpement national. Mots cles: Potentiels cognitifs; Statutx socio-economiques; Adultes nigeriens; Sciences; Technologie; L'echantillon de population
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".