The Effectiveness of Police Multimedia Training Packages on Students' Attitudes towards Social Security

By the influx of the global standards and their emphasis on technology as a major priority of education, their learning is a necessity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of police multimedia training packages on changing attitudes towards social security among the tenth grade students in the municipal district 5 of Tehran.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with two control and experimental groups. The statistical population of the study consisted of all tenth grade students in municipal district 5 of Tehran city. The sample of the study was selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling method from the students of district 5 schools of Tehran in the academic year of 2019-2020. One school was randomly chosen. One class of that school containing 6 grade-10 classes was chosen and then two classes, each of which containing thirty students were randomly selected from each class and randomly divided into experimental (n = 30) and control (n = 30) groups. The research tool was Social Security Attitude Questionnaire and Multimedia Educational Package.

Findings of teaching methods on changing social security attitudes are as follows: in life dimension F (f = 13.84, Sig = 0.00); in financial dimension F (12.89, Sig = 0.04); and also in the cultural dimension, F (f = 62.67, Sig = 0.00), which means that multimedia education packages have a positive and significant effect on changing social security attitudes from the life, financial and cultural dimensions.

The results show that multimedia educational packages increase students' participation in providing security and promoting police status among them, and changes society's attitude toward social security. Multimedia educational packages also change students' attitudes about life, finances and culture. They have the greatest impact on the cultural dimension of social security.