2019 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 129-137
The purpose of this study was to develop an awareness scale for technology assessment for junior high school students. The question items were developed on the basis of teachers’ manuals published by three textbook companies, which were administered to 476 junior high school students. As a result of a factor analysis, four factors were extracted: “F1: Ability that can comprehensively assess technology from plural viewpoints,” “F2: Ability to think about technology surrounding us,” “F3: Appropriate utilization of information technology and ability that can pleiotropically consider the environment,” “F4: Ability to think about energy problems and natural environments”. The standard mean was shown to be significantly highly in the order of F3, F4, F1, F2. F2 exceeded 2.5, which was the average of the four-point scale, but it was shown that consciousness was lower than other factors.
