LEARN! Manual Example #21 This example illustrates how the “Help the Helmetless” activity was evaluated using a mix of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods, and included baseline and post-activity measurements. Related Step 8 Evaluation Age Group 15 to 25 years old Evaluate. Execute your evaluation plan by conducting process and Read more…
LEARN! Manual Example #23 This example shows the two surveys that Prevenção Rodoviária Portuguesa (PRP) used to evaluate their “Be Seen” project, thereby providing examples of the structure and design of evaluation questionnaires. Related Step 8 Evaluation Age Group Pupils: 6-14Students and persons of 15 years and older Evaluate. Execute Read more…
LEARN! Manual Example #22 This example shows what methods the Prevenção Rodoviária Portuguesa (PRP) used to evaluate their “Be Seen” project and what results they found. Related Step 8 Evaluation Age Group Pupils: 6-14Students and persons of 15 years and older Evaluate. Execute your evaluation plan by conducting process and Read more…
Working with curriculum specialists, Road Safety Scotland investigated opportunities to embed road safety within traditional subjects in the curriculum. Science lessons were developed which focused on speed and provided reaction timers to local road safety teams for use in schools. Road Safety Scotland also developed a physics experiment kit, also Read more…
Virtual reality (VR) goggles and a static bike allow people to pedal through a virtual Madrid, in order to not only learn about the applicable cycling regulations, but also the potentially dangerous situations that the cyclist may encounter on the five pre-programmed routes and how to prevent them. The initiative, Read more…
The German Road Safety Council, supported by the German Social Accident Insurance, develops a comprehensive set of materials for teachers of vocational schools every year. The materials focus on a different topic related to the prevention of road accidents each year. The set includes, amongst others, a power point presentation, Read more…
The Curriculum for Excellence is the philosophy underpinning the Scottish Education System and, to ensure credibility within the learning and teaching profession, Road Safety Scotland has aligned all its resources with it. A guide for teachers provides an overview of the available resources and how they support the curriculum. Road Read more…
In order to encourage and support schools, nine provinces in the Netherlands have implemented a programme that rewards primary schools with a ‘road safety label’ when they implement road safety education as well as traffic safety measures in and around the school. ‘SCHOOL op SEEF’ is the programme in South Read more…
Many of the principles listed in the LEARN! Key Principles are low-cost measures. Schools can, for example, develop and implement a traffic safety policy plan and appoint a traffic safety contact teacher (see Principles #6 and #7) at little to no cost. The principles of materials needing to be up-to-date (see Principle #10) as Read more…
Road safety education at Portuguese schools is a complementary part of the curriculum on citizenship education, and is therefore not a separate subject. The road safety education competency framework, a guidance tool identifying the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that individuals must adopt to be safe on the road, consists Read more…