Learning Community-An International Journal of Educational and Social Development
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2and3

Awareness among B.Ed teacher training towards Cyber-crime-A Study

Hindu College of Education, Sonepat, Haryana, India

*Corresponding author: urmilagoel2@gmail.com

Online published on 21 February, 2015.

Abstract

The present study aims to find out the Cyber CrimeAwareness among B.Ed. Teacher Trainees. For this purpose a sample of 120 B.Ed students was selected from Sonipat district. The data was collected by Cyber Crime Awareness Scale (CCAS-RS) developed by Dr. S. Rajasekar. The study reveals that there is no significant difference towards cyber-crime awareness among boys and girls. There is no significant difference towards cyber-crime awareness among rural boys and girls. There is significant difference towards cyber-crime awareness among urban boys and girls, science and art boys and science and art girls. The result shows that awareness towards cyber-crime is not significantly affected by Gender, whether it is male or female but it is significantly affected byarea, whether it is rural or urban andstream, whether it is science or art.

Keywords

Cyber crime, teachers awareness