The level of knowledge of nanotechnology of high school students in Jeddah and their attitudes towards it

Abstract

The aim of this research is to track the knowledge of nanotechnology of high school Students "female" in Jeddah city, and their trends towards it, and finding out the relationship between the level of the knowledge of nanotechnology and the tendency towards nanotechnology of the sample individuals, the research was based on the descriptive approach. And the research sample was determined by the students of the third grade secondary (scientific section) in the city of Jeddah with 40 students. This research was carried out at the beginning of the first semester of the academic year 2018-2019, and for achieving the research’s objectives a test which measures the level of the knowledge of nanotechnology was used and also a scale gauges the tendency towards nanotechnology. The research pointed out that the cognitive level of high school students in Jeddah city is low where it amounted to (42%). The research also showed that the students’ marks average in the tendency scale is high where it reached (3.93) ,there is also a strong positive correlation between the level of knowledge of nanotechnology and the trend towards nanotechnology of the sample.