TRAFFIC GARDENS

INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE EFFECTS OF TRAFFIC GARDENS WERE MADE WITH A GROUP OF 7 YEAR OLD CHILDREN AND WITH A GROUP OF 6 YEAR OLDS. BOTH AGES WERE DIVIDED INTO 4 GROUPS: 1 TAUGHT IN TRAFFIC GARDEN, 1 IN SCHOOL-YARD WHERE CURB ETC., WAS SIMPLY DRAWN AND ROAD SIGNS PUT UP, 1 IN A REAL STREET SITUATION, AND 1 CONTROL GROUP WITHOUT ANY INSTRUCTIONS. BEFORE STARTING GIVING INSTRUCTION, ALL THE CHILDREN PASSED AN INTERVIEW ABOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE IN RELEVANT TRAFFIC QUESTIONS AND A PEDESTRIAN TEST IN SIMPLE REAL STREET SITUATION. THEN ALL THE EXPERIMENT GROUPS HAD THEIR LESSONS BY THE SAME TEACHER AND IN THE SAME WORDS FOR SOME WEEKS. AFTERWARDS THE INTERVIEW AND THE PRACTICAL TEST WERE RENEWED TO SHOW IF THERE WAS ANY EFFECT OF THE INSTRUCTION. IT WAS FOUND IN BOTH THESE STUDIES THAT THE BEST METHOD WAS TO TEACH IN REAL STREET SITUATIONS. NEXT BEST WERE THE SCHOOL-YARDS. THE TRAFFIC GARDEN GROUPS WERE HARDLY BETTER AFTER INSTRUCTION THAN THE CONTROL GROUPS WITHOUT ANY INSTRUCTION AT ALL. /SRIS/

• Corporate Authors:

  Stockholm University, Sweden

  Institute for Child Development Research
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Sandels, S
• Publication Date: 1970-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 91 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Pedestrians; Streets; Traffic safety education
• Old TRIS Terms: Minors; Traffic gardens
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223585
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 29 1971 12:00AM