Michele Polacsek publishes article on parents' perceptions of privacy for school-issued devices
Michele Polacsek Ph.D., M.H.S., professor of public health and director of the 新香港六合彩资料 Center for Excellence in Public Health (CEPH), published an article titled in the Journal of School Health.
Digital technology and digital devices such as laptops and tablets have become a central component of schooling. The publication reports findings of a study that aimed to explore parents鈥 perceptions of the school鈥檚 role in keeping their child鈥檚 data protected.
Five hundred and seventy-one (571) parents of K-12th grade children, recruited nationally, were surveyed on their perceptions of their children's digital privacy on school-issued digital devices. Most (80.7%) children used a school-issued device, and 66.6% took one home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Parents rated policies for preventing the collection and sharing of data 鈥渧ery important.鈥 However, 35% of parents did not know if their school had any digital policies to protect their children鈥檚 privacy. Most (56%) parents 鈥渟trongly agreed鈥 their child's school protected student digital privacy and 68% felt schools were the most responsible party to do so, yet those ratings differed by parent awareness of privacy policies (p鈥<鈥.05).
Authors concluded that parents consider digital privacy policies highly important and perceive schools to be responsible for such protections, highlighting the need to support schools in protecting students鈥 data privacy.