An English teacher humorously recounts his experiences teaching driver education in summer school. (SP)

Paper presented at the Student Council for Exceptional Children Convention (Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 1969). (RJ)

Describes the School Bus Driver Training Project in New York. (MLF)

Investigates perceptions of self and others among young drivers. Conveys that the participants rated undesirable actions more probable under low verifiability and controllability and considered others more likely to engage in undesirable actions. Concludes that young drivers must be aware of their feelings of superiority in order to change their…

This document describes a study that used the "critical incident technique" to define and produce a descriptive classification of safe and unsafe driving behavior exhibited by adults and to organize these descriptions for use in older driver improvement courses and other educational activities. An introduction describes the study's…

This document is intended to teach the riders of off-highway vehicles (OHVs) how to ride safely and legally on Utah's public lands and how to take care of the places in which they ride. OHVs are all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), off-highway motorcycles, and snowmobiles. Receiving a passing grade on the final test and in an associated course on driving…

This booklet contains a 15-question rating form that provides some guidance to older drivers in beginning to assess their driving skills. The pages following the self-rating form discuss the various questions on the form. After a general introduction, the discussion is divided into five areas that traffic safety authorities have judged critical to…

This pamphlet is a practical guide with helpful suggestions on safe driving for older people. A discussion of the controversy surrounding older people's driving ability begins the pamphlet. Effects of aging on driving are discussed, including affects on vision, twilight and night driving, hearing, muscles and joints, and mental functions. It is…

This trainee guide contains six units of materials for use by those studying to become school bus drivers in the State of Illinois. Covered in the units are the following topics: school bus driver role and responsibility, passenger control, first aid, driving fundamentals, accidents and emergencies, and detecting hazards. Each unit contains a…

To assist the youthful learner of English as a second language in dealing with driver's license applications and automobile purchasing procedures, a series of dialogs, comprehension questions, readings, and points of discussion are presented. The text is illustrated with sample forms. (JB)

This instructor's guide accompanies a secondary education driver education curriculum (CE 019 858). It contains instructions for the following three units included in the curriculum guide: (1) introduction to the course; (2) basic control tasks; and (3) procedures involved in normal driving. First, the general instructional approach is discussed…

Eight units of study, each divided into three or four episodes, make up this Illinois driver's education curriculum for commercial schools. Each unit contains behavioral objectives for the unit and for the individual episodes, each of which is broken down into sub-objectives with corresponding content information or tasks to be performed. The…

Described is Vermont's program of individualized driver education for handicapped secondary students 15 years or older and for disabled adults no longer in school. Sections outline the following program components: three R's of driver's education (responsibilities of the schools, regulations of motor vehicles, and rights of the handicapped…

This booklet is designed for teenage students and discusses safety and first aid. The first part of the booklet covers safety instruction, causes of accidents, what it means to be safety-minded, and discusses experimental safe-car design and testing programs. The second part presents basic descriptions for first aid treatment of common injuries…