The EU-granted project ERIC aims to improve Road Safety by a computer-based training (CBT) programme tackling the issues of “Fundamental basics of Physics for driving” and “Fatigue”. The aim of this report is to identify the acceptance of the developed two CBTs in four languages (Austrian, German, Spanish and Polish) based on the data of the participants. Each country was responsible for selecting the seminar participants. The selection was based on the project´s target group: professional drivers, technical experts in labour risk prevention and the driving/ training community. Altogether, it was managed to gather 263 participants. From this total, 19% watched the Spanish version, 23% the Austrian version, 24% the German version and 35% the version in Polish. Methodologically, a pre-post-design was conducted with a pre-questionnaire (pre), an immediate post-questionnaire (post1) and a delayed survey with the same questionnaire (post2). The results showed that the expectation towards the training had been rather high: for both CBTs, the participants expected the tool as “rather useful”, that it would provide new information and would be “rather interesting”. Comparing these results with the data from post1 and post2, it can be shown that these expectations have been fulfilled: only an insignificant drop of the agreements can be observed. In detail, it can be shown that male participants´ expectations were higher than those from female participants. In line with that finding, participants with low driving frequency did not benefit as much as participants with a higher driving frequency. Participants with an academic educational background had the lowest expectations and perceived the CBTs not as useful as the other groups, but still “rather useful” over time. In conclusion, the general acceptance of the four country-specific CBTs is rated very positive, with the Spanish and the Austrian versions rated mostly lower than the German and the Polish versions. As recommendation for further improvement it is stated that the country-specific differences in the perception of the design and the willingness for recommending the CBT should be further analyzed and explained. (Author/publisher)
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