Cybercrime Awareness and Computer Attitude Among Prospective Teachers

By: Kumar, Sunil

Present study was undertaken to investigate the significance of difference in cyber crime awareness and computer attitude of prospective teachers on the basis of gender, locale and stream. The sample of the study comprised of 400 B.Ed. students selected randomly from the colleges of Education affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh; Punjabi University, Patiala and G.N.D.U., Amritsar. Cyber Crime Awareness Scale (CCAS-RS) by Rajasekar (2013) and Computer Attitude Scale (CAS) by Khatoon and Sharma (2012) were used for data collection. Mean, median, stand deviation, were employed to check the nature of distribution of data. 2X2X2 analysis of variance was used to investigate the significance of difference between cybercrime awareness among different groups. Result of the study revealed that: (a) Female prospective teachers are more aware about cybercrime as comparative to their male counterparts. (b) Urban prospective teachers are more aware about cybercrime as comparative to their rural counterparts. (c) Prospective science teachers are more aware about cybercrime as comparative to their humanities counterparts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6208010101
• ISBN13: 9786208010102
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"