The Impact of Assigning Police Assistant Role to Children on Learning Driving Laws

Traffic police Recently pay special attention to the education of childrenthrough the implementation of "Police Assistants" and "Youth Policemen"programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the role ofpolice assistants on learning the rules of driving in children. This is a quasiexperimentalstudy and its design is pre-test and post-test. The statisticalpopulation of the study consisted of 10-12 year old boys in Tehran. Thirtychildren were selected by available and purposive sampling method and wererandomly assigned into two experimental and control groups (15 people ineach group). Then a valid and reliable questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha 0.91)was designed on guidance rules for children. The experimental group was thenassigned the role of police assistant and three weeks later the samequestionnaire was again administered to both groups. The result of this studyshowed that the scores of the control group did not change significantly in thetwo stages of the driving test. whereas in the assistants group, this averageincreased significantly after assuming the police assistant role. but afterassigning the police assistant role to the experimental group, there was asignificant difference between the two groups. Thus, by assigning the role ofthe police assistant to the children, their learning will be significantlyimproved at three levels of attitude, knowledge and behavior