YOUTH ALCOHOL SAFETY EDUCATION CRITERIA DEVELOPMENT

The report describes development and evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and performance measures designed to assess the effectiveness of the Youth Alcohol Safety Education Curriculum. The following measures were developed: knowledge measure--a multiple choice test of drinking-driving knowledge; obvious attitude measure--a scale of drinking-driving opinions; projective attitude measure--a series of drinking and driving scenes to be interpreted; pseudo-knowledge measure--an opinion scale disguised as a multiple choice knowledge test; and performance measure--a drinking-driving behavior checklist. The measures were evaluated through administration to high school students prior to and six months following driver education. The knowledge and obvious attitude measures showed sufficient internal consistency to be used on an individual basis. The projective and pseudo-knowledge measures showed sufficient correlation with the obvious measures (.4-.5) to be used as a group measure of attitude. All three attitude measures showed sufficient correlation with subsequent performance (.3-.4) to permit the prediction of group performance.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Public Services Research Institute

  123 North Pitt Street
  Alexandria, VA  United States  22314

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • McKnight, A J
  • Preusser, D F
  • Psotka, J
  • Katz, D B
  • Edwards, J M
• Publication Date: 1979-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 209 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Attitudes; Behavior; Drivers; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Education; Evaluation; Highway transportation; Measures of effectiveness; Performance; Specialized training; Students; Teenage drivers; Traffic safety; Traffic safety education
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00314055
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-HS-805-295
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-7-01794
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 5 2002 12:00AM