EVALUATION OF ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

1. EVALUATION OF ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS Raymond Teoh Joo Han Road Safety Department, Malaysia GRSP/Asia Road Safety Seminar 4 November 2010, Siem Reap

2. INTRODUCTION ROAD SAFETY PLAN OF MALAYSIA 2006-2010

3. BACKGROUND • ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION • The main goal of this Road Safety Education (RSE) among school children is to inculcate awareness and good practices among the young children; • To create a new safety culture amongst the younger generation; • RSE is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Education & Ministry of Transport; • RSE is taught as part of the Bahasa Malaysia subject for 1 period a week; • First introduced to schools in 2007 as a pilot project; • As of 2010, it is being taught to all Year 1 to Year 6 students in all primary schools nationwide.

4. IMPLEMENTATION • Module for RSE was jointly developed by an appointed consultant together with the Ministry of Transport & Ministry of Education; • Road safety elements were imbedded in the teaching of the Bahasa Malaysia subject (language); • From 2007 to 2009, one teacher from each school was selected to attend a Training of Trainers programmewhere they are trained to teach road safety as part of the BM subject; • These teachers will later transfer their knowledge to their fellow colleagues from the same school by conducting another training session; • In 2010, due to budget constraints, 6 teachers were selected per district to attend the TOT programme. These teachers later conducted training in their respective districts for their fellow collegues;

5. IMPLEMENTATION STAGES

6. METHODOLOGY Done by Road Safety Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia

7. EVALUATION • Questionnaire • To measure the effectiveness of RSE via the Bahasa Malaysia subject; • A quasi experimental design was adopted; • Involves pre and post test study • Treated and control groups • A survey was conducted with the use of questionnaire to collect data; • Questionnaire developed based on learning outcomes; • Study design to assess effectiveness of teaching modules in terms of learning outcomes;

8. RESEARCH DESIGN • (Using the results from the 2008 study on Year 2 students) Difference Response Measure Pre-response Measure Treatment Post Measure Experimental Group X Xi X Xi Compare Control Group Yi Y Yi Y • RSE was taught between May to September 2008; • Pre test was conducted in Apr 2008 while post test was carried out in Oct 2008

9. RESEARCH DESIGN • (Using the results from the 2008 study on Year 2 students) • Six educational districts were chosen based on the rate of accidents and population of school children; • For the Control group, meanwhile, selected province is from the same state where it is similar or comparable with the Treatment group

10. TREATMENT GROUP

11. CONTROL GROUP

12. Number of Respondents Year 2

13. Research Instruments • This study used the Data Collection Technique completely with questionnaire form; • Design and constitution of this survey form was defined carefully; • Generally, the questions in the survey form were composed based on the teaching’s elements consisted in the adopted Educational Module. • The questionnaire for this group study was composed based on “Learning Outcome” as below:- • Road is a complex and dangerous place to all the road users (16 Questions); • Children having risk on the road due to their physical size and maturity (11 Questions); • Importance of using seat belt (8 Questions)

14. Data Collection Method • During data gathering, two enumerators were assigned for execution; • All the respondents were gathered in a room and questionnaires were distributed; • Enumerators were then responsible to explain all the questions so that the questions are clearly understood by respondents; • Besides that respondents who have problem of writing answer will be aided by enumerator, by which only their verbally answer for the corresponding questions will be written.

15. Results Year 2 (LO1: Road is a complex and dangerous place to all the road users) • 26.7% increase of high score for treatment group • 0.9% decrease of low score for treatment group

16. Results Year 2 (LO1: Road is a complex and dangerous place to all the road users) • Question 3: Children might not know what lampuundanis.

17. Results Year 2 (LO2: Children having risk on the road due to their physical size and maturity) • 17.4% increase of high score for treatment group • 2.5% decrease of low score for treatment group

18. Results Year 2 (LO2: Children having risk on the road due to their physical size and maturity)

19. Results Year 2 (LO3: Importance of using seat belt) • 9.0% increase of high score for treatment group • 1.2% decrease of low score for treatment group

20. Results Year 2 (LO3: Importance of using seat belt)

21. Results Test for Year 2 Learning Outcomes

22. Conclusion • The overall results show improvements in knowledge level of respondents, indicates the positive outcomes of intervention; • The most important finding is most of the elements of RSEM were absorbed and finely understood by respondents in a short period.

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