ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL STANDARDS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN NATURAL SCIENCES IN RELATION TO THE COMPETENCE APPROACH IN PISA.

The results of the Bulgarian students from the international evaluation survey PISA and the opportunities to build core competencies and develop scientific literacy depend largely on legal documentation that determines the educational content and the technology of conducting the learning process. In this respect, the most important are the State Educational Requirements for Educational Content. Therefore, the present study analyses not only the PISA results, but also the correlation between the requirements of PISA and the requirements of the normative documents related to science education in Bulgarian schools. This will contribute to improving the quality of education in science, synchronizing it with the modern requirements and providing opportunities for realization of Bulgarian students on the international labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]