In a field experiment on moped rider training, young moped riders were tested one week before, two weeks after and eleven months after participation in a practical moped riding training course. As a result of rider training the group trainees performed considerably better at a riding task than the group non-trainees two weeks after the training. However, this performance difference was not present anymore at follow-up testing 11 months later. The group that did not follow the course significantly improved their driving skill. However, the group that had already improved their driving skill with the training, did not improve any further. Those moped riders that improved most from the 16-h training course at the post-test also declined in performance considerably at the long term follow-up. Knowledge that relies of an understanding of how behaviour should change in a dynamic situation was more strongly related to actual riding skill than knowledge that was based on memorising fairly straightforward situation-rule connections. Implications for moped training are discussed. (A) "Reprinted with permission from Elsevier".
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