Abstract
The research developed a psychological scale for measuring university students' awareness of "making artifacts" which is directly related to education of technologies for engineering products. The pretest and formal test were conducted to verify the validity of the scale, in particular, focusing on the relationships between awareness of making artifacts and anxiety toward computer and mathematics, which are subjects related to education of making artifacts. The results showed the internal consistency, factorial validity, and cross validity of the "making artifacts" awareness scale. Moreover, they suggested that the students with higher anxiety toward operation and learning of computer and mathematics had more negative awareness of making artifacts. Furthermore, the results suggested that there were differences on the relationships between awareness of making artifacts and anxiety toward computer and mathematics, even in the students at faculty of science and engineering, dependent on the characteristics of the departments that they belonged.
