A Proposal for a Preventive Program for Risks Associated with the Use of the Internet and Its Impact upon Students' Awareness of Perverse Issues

Autor/in	Al Saif, Abdulkarim A.
Titel	A Proposal for a Preventive Program for Risks Associated with the Use of the Internet and Its Impact upon Students' Awareness of Perverse Issues
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Technology, 7 (2010) 3, S.42-53 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0973-0559
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Internet; Risk Management; Foreign Countries; High School Students; Middle School Students; Student Behavior; Consciousness Raising; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Comparative Analysis; Gender Differences; Information Technology; Safety; Program Effectiveness; Skill Development; Information Literacy; Student Surveys; Motivation; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Risikomanagement; Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Bewusstseinsbildung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Informationstechnologie; Sicherheit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Informationskompetenz; Schülerbefragung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	The current study attempts to develop a preventive program to fend off the risks of using the internet by trying to test the effectiveness of raising students' awareness on various new technology-related issues. In order to achieve this goal, descriptive, analytical, and experimental approaches have been utilized. The program has been applied to a sample of intermediate and high school students in the cities of Jeddah, Al-Qassim and Riyadh before and after the experiment to gain more insight into the effectiveness of the designed program. A special measure of the level of students' awareness has been established. As shown in the findings, the program has proved to be highly effective in raising the awareness of intermediate and high school students about the problems and risks of misusing the internet. In particular, results show a statistically significant difference in the mean of students' awareness between the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental groups. The students' responsiveness to the awareness scale has shown no statistically significant differences between the two groups with regard to gender, but with the students of Jeddah and Riyadh showing a higher level of risk than those of Al-Qassim. Based on these findings, the researchers recommend the use of information technology to create communication networks across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to exchange knowledge and experience in a risk-free internet environment, passing on such knowledge and experience to students through school curricula, special programs , or its incorporation into a computer course. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01