The primary purpose of this project is to determine the crash reduction potential of the Safe Performance Curriculum and curriculum delivery system in the secondary school. The research design is a comparative analysis of randomly assigned students receiving instruction in the Safe Performance Curriculum (SPC), the Pre-Driver Licensing Course (PDL), and a group receiving no driving instruction in the secondary school (Control). This report discusses the operational activities from July 1980 to June 1981, and delineates the interim research findings. At the completion of the Project data generation phase (June 1981), 17,161 students have been randomly assigned to either the treatment (SPC & PDL) or Control groups. Approximately 12,000 students have completed the treatment and become licensed drivers. Interim analysis of the data show a modest trend favoring the SPC student. However, this trend is statistically significant only as it relates to the violation rate of male drivers. Trend data indicates no significant differences in the mean accident rates of the SPC, PDL and Control students.
Samenvatting