Degree of Awareness of Vocational Students in Al-Balqa Applied University to Bioethics Issues arising from Biotechnology Applications with Respect to Certain Variables

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This study investigated the degree of awareness of vocational students to bioethical issues arising from biotechnology applications, and its relationship with thei racademic level and gender. The sample of the study consists of (314) male and female students from the Faculty of Al-Hoson / Al- Balqa Applied University.The tool of the study was a scale of awareness consisted of four domains in bioethics. Means, standard deviations and percentages were counted. To explore the differences in the degree of student's awareness ʺ Fʺ (f-Test) for independent samples was conducted. The results of the study showed that the degree of student's awareness of ethical issues (Total) was medium, there was no significant effect of gender on the degree of awareness, but the academic level influenced the degree of awareness significantly

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