The Level of Postgraduate Students’ Understanding of the Effects of Science and Technology on Economy and its Relation to some Variables

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the level of understanding of postgraduate students at Faculty of Education for the effect of science and technology on economy and its relation to gender, experience and specialization at bachelor stage. The sample consisted of 75 Ph.D. students in Curricula and Instruction Department, who were registered in the second semester in the academic year 2016/2017. A questionnaire consisted of 41 items was used for collecting data. The results showed that the understanding of the effect of science and technology on economy was with mean (3.21) points which is equivalent to (64%). This level was considered low compared to the acceptable educational level (80%). Significant statistical differences were found attributed to gender (male –female) in favor of male students, while there was no significant difference according to the specialization in the bachelor stage. Moreover, the results showed that there was a significant effect of the paired reactions between experience and specialization for the social studies specialization with more than 10 years’ experience. A significant effect was found for the trinary reactions between gender, experience, and specialization for males who were specialized in science and mathematics with experience of (1-5) years, and for females who were specialized in Arabic and English with experience of (6-10) years.

Keywords

• Postgraduate students, effect of science and technology on economy, specialization, teaching experience