Research and Development of Media Technologies to Raise Awareness and Prevent Cybercrime Among Students
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This research and development study aimed to: 1) research and develop media technologies designed to raise awareness of cyber threats and preventing cybercrime among students; 2) compare students' learning achievement before and after utilizing the developed media technologies; and 3) evaluate students' satisfaction with the developed media technologies. The sample comprised 40 first-year undergraduate students enrolled in the regular program during the first semester of the 2025 academic year in the Computer and Information Technology program at Nakhon Sawan Rajabhat University. Participants were selected through simple random sampling using a computerized random sampling procedure. The research instruments consisted of: 1) a cyber threat awareness and cybercrime prevention application developed on the Glide App platform, a no-code application development platform; 2) a learning achievement test; and 3) a satisfaction evaluation questionnaire.
The research findings revealed that the developed cyber threat awareness and cybercrime prevention application demonstrated the highest level of appropriateness (= 4.52, S.D. = 0.21). Students' post-intervention learning achievement scores were significantly higher than their pre-intervention scores at the statistical significance level of p < .01. Furthermore, students expressed the highest level of overall satisfaction with the application (
= 4.53, S.D. = 0.59). These findings indicate that the developed media technologies are effective and well-aligned with the learning characteristics of digital-era learners.
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