The study found that graduates of both a traditional driver education curriculum and a slightly more extensive curriculum failed to show significantly better road performance.
Rhode Island and Massachusetts require 30 hours of professional classroom instruction, 12 hours of on-road driving, 6 hours of on-road observation, as well as two hours of parental participation in the driver's education curriculum.
Additionally, Aceable plans to use its funding to develop curriculum beyond driver's ed, said CEO and founder Blake Garrett.
The teachers developed their own PBL instructional framework in the summer prior to start-up (Fig. 1), which placed themes as the overarching intellectual driver of multi-disciplinary curriculum.
A proposed law, expected to be voted on by the lower chamber of congress in the coming weeks, would overhaul traffic agencies and put in place a campaign to incorporate driver education into school curriculums.
This article orients the preceptor to the drivers of a competency-based curriculum and provides tips for preceptor success as a partner in educating NP students within programs that have adopted a competency-based approach.
This paper explores the outcomes of an innovative approach aimed at ensuring responses to these drivers for change, particularly in curriculum development, the organisation, management and delivery of programmes and the enhancement of the student experience, are evidence based.
That goes for bus drivers, cafeteria workers, business managers, principals, curriculum directors, and even the superintendent himself.
Challenges identified included finances, transport, personnel availability, clinic space, curriculum time constraints, student and driver absenteeism, and ethical aspects.
Common initial student ideas were identified for each of the big ideas (AAAS, 1993; Driver et al., 1994), and the curriculum was developed to specifically expose and confront these preconceptions.
These programs are mostly classroom oriented (refresher program) and aim at promoting safe driving as well as increasing older drivers' confidence behind the wheel through a curriculum emphasizing awareness of traffic hazards, insisting on the need for anticipating the actions of other drivers and providing a general overview of traffic regulations.
