A study of investigating the use of mobile phones among high-school male and female students in Sanandaj City

The present study aimed at investigating the rate of using mobile phones in classroom between high-school male and female students in district 1 and 2 in Sanandaj city. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population included 24450 students. Using cluster sampling from six male and six female school 42 classroom were chosen, out of which 1042 students were selected through random sampling. The result showed that 82.4 percent had personal mobile and 17.6 percent didn’t have one. Among the students 55.2 percent would take their mobile to school. Those who took mobile to school would put it in silent mode comprise 97.3 percent and only 3.7 percent would have it on. The results also showed that there was a significant difference between gender in reading the SMS and answering it in the classroom. But there wasn’t a significant difference between male and female relating to forwarding SMS while in the class. Concerning the use of Bluetooth there was a significant difference between male and female students. There was a significant difference regarding using mobile for cheating in the examination.