Computing students show high objective cybersecurity knowledge, with over 75% answering five or more of seven Pew questions correctly¶
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q2 i? Over 75% of surveyed computing students correctly answered five or more of seven objective cybersecurity knowledge questions, outperforming the original Pew general-population sample. → Adama 2026
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Adama 2026¶
Adama, V., Biddle, R., Arachchilage, N., & Lottridge, D. (2026). Confident yet Concerned: Inconsistencies in Computing Students' Attitudes on Cybersecurity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18541 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.18541
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Survey of 236 computing students using seven objective ability questions adapted from the Pew Research Center. The article reports "Over 75% of the students correctly answered five or more out of the seven selected questions", with the highest concentration scoring 5–6 of 7; in the original Pew survey only one question was answered correctly by 75% of participants.
"Over 75% of the students correctly answered five or more out of the seven selected questions. The highest concentration of participants scored between 5 and 6 (out of 7 questions) on the scale"
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Related Claims¶
- Security intentions and objective knowledge correlate with preparedness, and self-efficacy correlates with confidence — related
- Two attitude clusters differ significantly on preparedness, confidence, and interest (p<.0001), with Cluster 1 lower on Pew and GSE but not SeBIS, and reporting more word-of-mouth learning — related
- Self-efficacy predicts cluster membership, with the article concluding self-efficacy may play a foundational role in the cluster difference — related
- Computing students learn cybersecurity mainly from informal sources outside the classroom, with word of mouth, social media, and financial institutions most common — related
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Computing students show high objective cybersecurity knowledge, with over 75% answering five or more of seven Pew questions correctly |
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Computing students show high objective cybersecurity knowledge, with over 75% answering five or more of seven Pew questions correctly |
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