Evaluation of teenage driver understanding of traffic control devices /
administered to the same participants after the
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1999.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | administered to the same participants after the and after a driver education course. The initial and/or an increased emphasis on the correct meaning of be understood at different levels: desirable, less combinations, eight regulatory signs, 14 warning completion of the driver education program. The control devices in use in Texas and to identify the curriculum. desirable (correct response rates less than 85 developed and administered to a group of teenage devices that are continually misunderstood after driver education course. The post-test was driver education. The traffic control devices drivers between 15 and 18 years of age, both before drivers with regards to their understanding of 53 evaluated in the study included six sign shape/color evaluated in this study was found to be less than identified traffic control devices which were found to In terms of correct response rates, the results indications. A total of 260 teenage drivers objectives of this study were to assess the current participated in the pre-test and 172 in the post-test. percents; however, the results indicated that there rate after driver education. Recommendations include signs, seven pavement markings, and 11 signal signs, seven railroad, school zone, and construction survey, or pre-test, assessed teenagers' knowledge teenage driver understanding of selected traffic than desirable, and less than adequate. In general, the addition of devices to the Texas Drivers Handbook the comprehension level of the traffic control devices This research documents the evaluation of teenage graphics. traffic control devices in the driver education traffic control devices. A multiple choice survey was was a significant increase in mean correct response without any formal driving training and before the |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Civil Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 129 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101). |