STUDY OF THE RATE OF FEMALE HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS TO BASIC SIENCES IN FIRUZ ABAD, FARS, IRAN

Afsharipour, S and PourSadegh, T (2008) STUDY OF THE RATE OF FEMALE HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS TO BASIC SIENCES IN FIRUZ ABAD, FARS, IRAN. The Journal of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, 6 (3). pp. 107-112.

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Abstract

In the resent years, the girls tendencies to academic studies has considerably increased as the families’ educational levels growth, consequently the girl's scientific level and academic degrees and mothers’ cultural levels has increased too. So researching in girls’ intrest in basic science is reasonable due to the role of them in the growth of mental and functional utilites and economic, cultural and social cases in general and families. Methods and Materials: This research is done on 583 student randomy selected girls who are 14-32 Years old with 95% coefficient level and 5% error with questionnaire and measured their intrest in Basic Sciences majors and others. The data was analaysed by SPSS software and chi-square tests Results: Among 583 students, 28.47% are interested in medical majors, 26.59% in basic science, 19.38% in Humanities, 13.55% in Art and 12.01% haven’t any opinion. It is found that their selections were based on their intrests than occuption and financial matters. Conclusion: The result shows that at first girls are interested in medical majors, second in Basic Sciences majors and third in engineering then others and this rate is increasing during the recent years. Furthermore, the main points in selecting majors were interest then welfare and financial safty in rether than intrest which is reasonable. This survery shows the extent of girls’ knowledge and attitude toward the selection of their favourit majors. Also they discourage to choose Basic majors because of lack of job opportunities, low incomes and far away universities.

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