The Czech School Inspectorate in cooperation with Road Safety Department of the Ministry of Transport prepared a survey about traffic education in primary schools in the school year 2018/2019. The survey is unique in its detail, as usually more general surveys are conducted where traffic education is only a part. This time however, the whole survey was about traffic education. Pupils, teachers and school directors were involved.
The results showed that the general situation could be better and some shortcomings were identified in more than a third of the schools. Some topics defined in the framework education program were found lacking in practice and the effectiveness of traffic education was evaluated only in half of the schools.
Schools with the best results used traffic playgrounds, project activities, cycle tourism and cycling competitions and a larger number of educational materials. More often they also had a coordinator for traffic education. Pupils of these schools had better results in knowledge tests.
Almost all schools (95 %) collaborated in traffic education with other institutions (mostly with the traffic police and regional road safety coordinators).
The report on the survey contains recommendations for schools, school management and for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport. The most important ones are about better education of older pupils (12-15 years), inclusion of traffic education into more school subjects, and preparing materials for education of teachers.
More Information
Česká Školní Inspekce (2019), Dopravní Výchova Na Zš Ve Školním Roce 2018/2019.