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Paper Title:
Educating young drivers:
A method for auditing school-based resources
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Authors:
Shannon Newman, Gayle
Di Pietro
Abstract:
The Roads and Traffic
Authority currently implements a secondary school road safety education
program in NSW called 'young driver' to address key issues relating
to pre and novice driver's crash and injury experience on the road.
The RTA commissioned ARRB TR to undertake an audit of the resources
contained in this program, requesting that a model of behaviour
change be considered as an appropriate framework for auditing these
resources.
This study involved an
examination of the nature of the young driver problem and the factors
accounting for their over-representation in road crashes, coupled
with a discussion of the linkages between road safety education,
adolescent development and various learning styles. These factors
were then linked to the concepts of the proposed model of behaviour
change. Learning outcomes were developed for each concept, to assist
in determining the appropriateness of introducing various road safety
related issues to secondary school students, using a variety of
techniques in the school setting, as they move from a being a pre-driver,
to a learner and finally to a new, novice driver.
This process allowed
the activities within each resource in the NSW 'Young Driver' program
to be audited against the proposed learning outcomes, to determine
which components of the behavior change model were addressed by
the current suite of resources, which were not addressed by the
current program and which concepts may be better addressed outside
the school setting. Recommendations regarding the development of,
and the technological opportunities available for, future resources
for the education of young drivers in the school environment were
also drafted.
This paper will discuss
key research findings and illustrate one process that can be used
to audit educational resources that are used to promote safer road
use by new, novice drivers.
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