DRIVER IMPROVEMENT TRAINING AND EVALUATION: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

A DRIVER IMPROVEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM USING MULTIMEDIA CLASSROOM LESSONS AND MULTIPLE CAR DRIVING RANGE EXERCISES WAS GIVEN TO U.S. COAST GUARD RECRUITS. TRAINING WAS EVALUATED BY COMPARING MATCHED CONTROL AND EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS. BASELINE DATA INCLUDING DRIVING HISTORY, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS WAS COLLECTED. DRIVING RANGE, ATTITUDE, AND KNOWLEDGE TESTS COMPRISED THE INTERMEDIATE CRITERIA TESTS USED FOR PRE-POSTTESTING. SEVEN ULTIMATE CRITERION (E.G., ACCIDENTS AND VIOLATIONS) DATA SOURCES WERE IDENTIFIED AND DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENTS DEVELOPED. A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK WITH MODELS OF THE DRIVING PROCESS AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING AND LITERATURE REVIEWS ARE INCLUDED. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND CONTROL GROUP TEST SCORES WERE THE SAME AT PRETEST. AT POSTTEST THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP SCORED SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN AT PRETEST AND HIGHER THAN THE CONTROL GROUP. FUTURE PLANS FOR DATA ANALYSES AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTING AND INDIVIDUALIZED TRAINING WERE STARTED. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  American University

  Development Education and Training Research Institute
  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Whittenburg, J A
  • Pain, R F
  • Mcbride, R
  • Amidei, J
• Publication Date: 1970

Media Info

• Pagination: 365 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Crashes; Data analysis; Driver improvement programs; Drivers; Evaluation; Mathematical analysis; Reviews; Testing; Training; Training devices
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver improvement
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222295
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rept
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 24 1973 12:00AM