Nurturing Techniques Through Bibliotheraphy in Developing Leadership Skills Among Gifted Students in Bamaina Academy, Jigawa State, Nigeria.

The study was undertaken to find out the Nurturing Technique through Bibliotheraphy in Developing leadership skills among gifted students at Bamaina Academy for the gifted, Jigawa State. Two research objectives were formulated, two research question, guided the study. The population of forty (40) teachers and forty-eight (48) gifted students of leadership were used in the study. A purposive sampling technique was used in which whole sample size of students and teachers were used in the study as the number is manageable. Two data collection instruments were used for the study namely; Roets rating scale for leadership (RRSL) to measure students’ leadership characteristics. The second instrument is the Nurturing leadership questionnaire which was administered to teachers to assess the method used in developing and boosting student’s leadership skills in Bamaina Academy for the gifted. To establish their validity and reliability. The content validity index of each of the instruments was established by validation of experts in the Department of Special Education BUK. The reliability of RRSL was computed using Pearson correlation for internal consistency reliability and NLQ was computed using Cronbach alpha reliability test and reliability co-efficient of 0.64 for RRSL. 0.73 for NLQ were obtained. The data collected from the selected samples, were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 23. The findings revealed that teachers use nurturing techniques in developing leadership skills of gifted students at Bamaina Academy and students have high leadership trait in them. It was recommended that both gifted and non-gifted schools in Nigeria should use Bibliotheraphy in boosting leadership abilities.

Nurturing, Leadership Skills, Gifted, Students

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