Formulation and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Traffic Behavior Educational Package in terms of Learning Safe Traffic Behaviors in Elementary (Four Stage) Children

The purpose of doing this study was to determine the effectiveness of safe traffic package training offered in Children's Learning of boys and girls in first, second, fifth and sixth grades of elementary school.

  The method of the present study was experiment  in type of a quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with control group. . The statistical population of this study consisted of all children (12-7 years old) in the first, second, fifth and sixth grades of elementary school (boys and girls) who   were selected through multistage cluster sampling from elementary schools in Tehran with sample size of 240 individuals and randomly divided into experimental and control groups with 30 individuals in each of the bases and sexes. In this study, the package of safe traffic behaviors, was trained the experimental group in 8 sessions of 60-minute. But the control group received no intervention. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire according to article of Traffic Laws in three areas of pedestrian, bicyclist and car driver with 35 questions 4 options. This questionnaire was validated by face validity method and Cronbach's alpha coefficient (91%) was used to determine its reliability.

The descriptive findings of the present study and statistical indices such as mean and standard deviation of pre-test and post-test of boys and girls traffic safety behaviors variable by group and educational level show that in boys and girls group, the mean of experimental group among  the first, second, fifth and sixth grades students had a significant change compared to the control group.

Also the results of hypotheses considering the results of covariance analysis followed by statistical analysis and Bonferroni follow-up test show that there is a significant difference between experimental and control groups and different educational levels. ؛ But in terms of gender, there was no significant difference between boy and girl students and their progress was equal.