THE INFLUENCE OF INSTRUCTION ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF CHILDREN IN ROAD TRAFFIC

EINFLUSS DER INFORMIERTHEIT AUF DAS VERHALTEN VON KINDERN IM STRASSENVERKEHR

An investigation was carried out with a test class and two control classes, in order to determine whether well instructed children behave better in road traffic than less well instructed children, and to check the correctness of the hypothesis that children who have been actively trained in traffic drill move about more safely than others. It was recognised that the aims of a syllabus must be to ensure that children learn to distinguish between events which are important, and those which are unimportant for their behaviour as participants in the traffic, that they should know the traffic regulations which affect them and which they can apply in actual traffic situations, that the children's understanding of traffic events and their problems must be stimulated, and that they conceive the traffic flow as a form of human social life. It is necessary, amongst other things, to instruct the children to place themselves in the position of other traffic participants. All the factors influencing road traffic should be made understandable to children in order to enable them to distinguish relationships and to draw conclusions from them. In order to check the efficiency of such traffic instruction, a test was developed from which the state of knowledge of the children can be determined. It appears that the test class fared better than the control classes. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Dr Arthur Tetzlaff Verlag

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• Authors:
  • Heinrich, C
  • Langosch, I
• Publication Date: 1975

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 203-205
• Serial:
  • Zeitschrift für Verkehrssicherheit
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Kirschbaum Verlag
  • ISSN: 0044-3654

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Behavior; Children; Comprehension; Decision making; Education; School children; Schools; Tests; Traffic; Traffic safety; Traffic safety education
• Uncontrolled Terms: Child safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Minors
• ITRD Terms: 1758: Child; 2209: Comprehension; 2248: Decision process; 2284: Education; 101: School; 6255: Test; 755: Traffic
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157400
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM