Are Adult Driver Education Programs Effective?A Systematic Review of Evaluations of Accident Prevention Training Courses

  1. Faus, Mireia 1
  2. Alonso, Francisco 1
  3. Esteban, Cristina 1
  4. Useche, Sergio 1
  1. 1 DATS-INTRAS, University of Valencia
Journal:
International Journal of Educational Psychology: IJEP

ISSN: 2014-3591

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Pages: 62-91

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17583/IJEP.8805 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

Road safety training programs are commonly used to raise awareness of risky attitudes and behaviors. The evaluation of road safety education courses aimed at children is carried out with some assiduity. However, this does not usually occur in courses aimed at young people and adults. The present systematic review aims to identify studies that evaluate the effectiveness of road safety training programs in this population group. This systematic review followed the PRISMA methodology, by which the relevant articles based on the research term were identified. A total number of 1,336 indexed articles were filtered, and a final selection of 22 articles directly addressing the issue was obtained. Search strategies were developed and conducted in WOS, Scopus, NCBI, Google Scholar and APA databases. The selected articles indicate that the effects of road safety training programs in adults are mild to moderate. Their effectiveness is substantially increased when they are aimed at improving risk perception and decision making rather than training in driving skills. In any case, more evaluations of these courses are needed to identify which tools are effective and which should be replaced by new behavior modification methods in the design of future driver education programs.

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