Survey of Cybercrime in K12 Schools - The Diigo Meta page

• 18 Jun 08
  

  Anne Bubnic

  The Rochester Regional Cybersafety and Ethics Initiative has conducted the largest cyber safety and ethics survey of K-12 students in the Nation, with more than 40,000 students throughout the area participating. This new study shows that the majority of cyber offenses involving children, adolescents and young adults are perpetrated, not by adults, but rather by peers of approximately the same age or grade level. For a summary of the research report, see: <a href="http://www.rit.edu/news/?r=46201"><b>Key RIT Cybercrime Research Findings.</a></b><br><br>

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  • A Rochester Institute of Technology study of more than 40,000 adolescents reveals that 59 percent of cyber victims, in grades 7-9, say their perpetrators are a 'friend' that they know personally. That perpetrator, according to the survey, is also significantly more likely to be a fellow student than an adult.
  • the startling new reality is today’s children are most frequently preying on each other online—and their parents rarely have any idea it's happening."

  •  McQuade’s research was designed to determine the nature and extent of cybercrime abuse and victimization by and among adolescents. The survey was administered to students in Kindergarten-through-12th grade, varying by grade level, in 14 different school districts.  

     

  •  Survey results indicate that cyber bullying—consisting of sending threatening and nasty messages—begins as early as the second grade, peaks in middle school and sometimes continues through high school. One-in-10 second-and third-graders report having been "mean to someone" online, while one-in-five report that someone online has been "mean to them." 

     
  • children have a sense that they’re anonymous and invincible online

  •  Online identity theft is prevalent, even with younger Internet users. Twelve percent of fourth-through sixth-graders report having experienced someone pretending to be them online and 13 percent report someone having their password or account used without their permission.  

     
  • Illegally downloading music and movies often begins in the fourth grade, as eight percent of fourth-sixth graders admit to the act. Meanwhile, 65 percent of 10-through 12th-graders admit to having illegally downloaded music in the past year, with 34 percent admitting to illegally downloading movies.
    
  • Twenty-one percent of 10th-through 12th-graders admitted using a computer or electronic device to cheat on a school assignment within the last school year. Twelve percent admitted using technology to commit plagiarism and nine percent admit using an electronic device to cheat on an exam.
  • Dangerous and disturbing behaviors
     Adolescents, as young as kindergarteners, frequently come in contact with content that may be sexually oriented. Forty-eight percent of kindergarteners and first-graders reported viewing online content that made them feel uncomfortable.
  • Fifty percent of students at the kindergarten and first-grade level report that their parents don’t watch them when they use a computer. Only 32 percent of second-and third-graders surveyed report being watched by their parents when they go online.
  • ifty percent of students at the kindergarten and first-grade level report that their parents don’t watch them when they use a computer.

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