HOW EFFECTIVE IS SIMULATION?

AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF AGE IN SIMULATION TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOL DRIVER EDUCATION. 40 MALE STUDENTS WERE SELECTED, 20 BEING FROM 15 YEARS AND EIGHT MONTHS TO 16 YEARS OF AGE, AND 20 FROM 16 YEARS EIGHT MONTHS TO 17 YEARS OF AGE. THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO FOUR GROUPS, TWO GROUPS WERE GIVEN A NON-SIMULATION DRIVING PROGRAMME, THE OTHER TWO HAD TO FOLLOW A PROGRAMME HAVING SEVERAL HOURS OF SIMULATION INSTRUCTION. IT WAS FOUND THAT SIMULATION VERSUS NON-SIMULATION DID NOT PRODUCE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN SCORE BETWEEN IDENTICAL AGE GROUPS, BUT THAT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT RESULTS WERE OBTAINED ON FIVE DRIVING SPELLS AMONG THE OLDER GROUPS REGARDLESS OF WHEHER THEY RECEIVED SIMULATION TRAINING. THEREFORE AGE APPEARS TO BE PLAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE, AND, BASED ON THE ABOVE RESULTS, 16 YEARS EIGHT MONTHS TO 17 YEARS WOULD SEEM TO BE A MORE APPROPRIATE AGE TO INTRODUCE DRIVE EDUCATION REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SIMULATION OR NON-SIMULATION TECHNIQUES ARE EMPLOYED. /TRRL/

• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Helwig, C
  • Prince, C W
• Publication Date: 1973-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 24-5
• Serial:
  • Traffic Safety (Chicago)
  • Volume: 73
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: National Safety Council
  • ISSN: 0041-0721

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Driver training; Driving simulators; School bus drivers; Simulation; Statistical analysis
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224736
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 24 1974 12:00AM