CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS WHO COULD NOT TAKE AND SCHOOLS WHICH DID NOT OFFER DRIVER TRAINING

A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE IN DRIVER TRAINING INDICATES THAT THERE IS LITTLE ACCEPTABLE RESEARCH EVIDENCE ON ITS EFFECTIVENESS DESPITE A REASONABLE NUMBER OF STUDIES . A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 798 U.S. HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS DATA WAS SELECTED FROM A DATA BANK. SCORES WERE AVAILABLE ON 70 VARIABLES RELATED TO DRIVING SAFETY AND A CRITERION VARIABLE, WHETHER THEY HAD TAKEN DRIVER TRAINING OR NOT TAKEN IT BECAUSE IT WAS NOT OFFERED. EIGHTEEN OF THESE VARIABLES SHOWED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS. THESE VARIBLES CLUSTER AROUND ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE, INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. THE 861 U.S. HIGH SCHOOLS DATA WERE ALSO SELECTED FROM A DATA BANK. SCORES WERE AVAILABLE ON 97 VARIABLES RELATED TO DRIVING SAFETY AND A CRITERION VARIABLE, WHETHER OR NOT THEY OFFERED A DRIVER COURSE. FORTY EIGHT OF THESE VARIABLES SHOWED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS. THESE VARIABLES CLUSTER AROUND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT DIFFERENT KINDS OF STUDENTS DO AND DO NOT TAKE DRIVER TRAINING COURSES. SCHOOLS WHICH DO AND DO NOT OFFER DRIVER TRAINING ARE ALSO DIFFERENT ON VARIABLES WHICH ALSO RELATE TO FREQUENCY OF AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS. WHILE RESEARCH DOES NOT TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT DRIVER TRAINING COURSES MAKE NO DIFFERENCE IN NUMBER OF AUTOMOBILES ACCIDENTS, IT DOES DEMONSTRATE FURTHER THAT VARIABLES OTHER THAN TAKING OR NOT TAKING AND OFFERING OR NOT OFFERING DRIVER TRAINING DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN THE GROUPS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 18 Pp, 2 TaB, 12 REF
• Corporate Authors:

  Purdue University

  School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907
• Authors:
  • Shively, J E
  • Asher, W
• Publication Date: 1968

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Driver training; Measures of effectiveness; Safety education; Schools; Statistical analysis; Traffic crashes; Variables
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221037
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 23 1970 12:00AM