Selected from the National Instructional Materials Information System (NIMIS)--a computer based on-line interactive retrieval system on special education materials--the bibliography covers 76 adaptive devices and equipment items for working with physically handicapped students, with particular emphasis on physical education, recreation, driver…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Health Education--including a) personality development, b) disease control, c) tobacco, d) alcohol, e) drug education, f) consumer health education, g) physical fitness and conditioning, h) environmental health, i) health careers, j) safety and first aid, and k) driver education. ORGANIZATION AND…

The study compared the driver licensing test performance of two groups of driver education students: those involved in North Carolina's multi-vehicle range program and students in the "30 and 6" program (30 hours of class instruction and six hours of "behind the whell" instruction). It evaluated the performance of 3,049 applicants (all aged 16 and…

Developed from a systematic analysis of driving behaviors, this publication contains a set of instructional objectives for driver education courses and a series of tests designed to measure the degree to which the instructional objectives have been met by students. Part 1 provides a description of objectives for 74 learning units, including such…

Because Michigan has developed one of the outstanding driver education programs in the U.S. for high school students, it was selected for an investigation of how educational films were used to aid that program. The study described here focuses on three questions: 1. What is the amount of educational film use (how many, where, what kind)? 2. What…

A standardized and comprehensive school bus driver instructional program has been developed under contract with the Federal Government. The course has been organized to provide in one package a program for developing the minimum skills and knowledge needed by the school bus driver, as well as those supplemental skills and knowledge which the…

A standardized and comprehensive school bus driver instructional program has been developed under contract with the Federal Government. The course has been organized to provide in one package a program for developing the minimum skills and knowledge which the proficient driver might require. This guide contains the materials presented in eight…

Driver Education is one of the most expensive courses on a per pupil basis offered in secondary schools. In order to assess the magnitude of driver education in New York State, and to evaluate the various methods and approaches used to teach the course, the Office of Education Performance Review surveyed 67 driver education programs offered at…

This manual provides the basis for a 10-hour advanced course of instruction to be offered for those school bus drivers who have successfully completed a basic course. The course is composed of five units. The pupil control unit attempts to develop in the school bus driver an understanding of the functions of discipline and his relationship to the…

Energy conservation in school transportation is a major area of concern to the educational community. School buses travel in excess of four billion miles annually consuming 900 million gallons of fuel, transporting 55 percent of the school enrollment (grades K-12). Since the fuel allocation emergency, school transportation managers have begun…

Details the successes of a bus-driver-training program inaugurated in 1974 that is currently facing a loss of federal funds and outlines the efforts of a child psychiatrist in Vermont focusing on the need for bus drivers to maintain a positive environment among passengers. (JBM)

A Senate committe hearing received testimony on the proposed "Native American Commercial Driving Training and Technical Assistance Act" (Senate Bill 1344). The Act cites the high unemployment and economic distress among Native Americans, the federal government's obligation to assist Indian tribes with economic development, the high…

Discusses the new Federal Student Transportation Safety Standard 17. David H. Soule, designer and administrator of Standard 17, is interviewed. Topics covered are Federal aid, Federal-State-local relationship, bus driver training, and bus routing. (DN)

Clinch-Powell is the Regional Education Service Agency serving 4 counties in the heart of the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. (NQ)

Collected survey data relating to new driving courses and refresher driver courses for the older driver in the U.S. Findings indicated there are no statewide programs to assist senior citizens in obtaining driving skills and 37 percent of the states have no training programs for drivers who transport senior citizens. (Author)