A study to assess the effectiveness of online course on knowledge regarding cyber safety among adolescents in a selected school of Bareilly district

Abstract

internet is one of the best resources available to all of us. However it also harm to us if we don’t aware of safe internet use. Mostly young people are the victim of cybercrimes like cyber bullying, cyber grooming, online gaming fraud, email fraud and so on .so they need to protect themselves when they are in cyberspace. Hence the study was conducted with the aim to assess and enhance the knowledge level on cyber safety among adolescents. Material and methods: pre experimental, one group pre test, post test design was chosen to conduct a study at selected school with 50 samples based on convenient sampling technique. The researcher formulated questionnaire in Google form and done pre test. Online course was administered and tool post test after 7 days with the same questionnaire through online. Results: The collected data were analysed the result revealed that the mean post test knowledge score [19.96] was higher than the mean pre-test knowledge score (14.8). Knowledge enhancement was 10.32%. There was significant difference between pre test and post test score and t value was 11.46. Conclusion: the finding of the study reveals that after the implementation of online course, the knowledge score level was improved regarding cyber safety. Hence the online course was effective.