An Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of the Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge of Traffic Safety among School Children at Selected Urban Schools in Ludhiana, Punjab

Objectives:

1. To assess the pretest knowledge of Traffic Safety among school children of control and experimental group.

2. To assess the post test knowledge of Traffic Safety among school children of control and experimental group.

3. To compare the pretest and posttest knowledge of Traffic Safety among school children of control and experimental group.

4. To ascertain the relationship of structured teaching on knowledge of Traffic Safety among school children with selected variables such as age, gender, academic standard, father's education, exposure to mass media, type of vehicles use.

Material and Method: Experimental approach, true experimental design was used and the study conducted in Sargodha National public senior secondary school, field ganj and Shivalik Vidya Mandir School, Jamalpur.&Shivalik Vidya Mandir School Jamalpur, Ludhiana (Pb.) 64 school children were chosen by Non proportionate stratified random sampling. The data collected through self structured questionnaire. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean, median&mode)&inferential statistics (Chi square, F test, Correlation of coefficient&t test).

Results: The pretest mean knowledge score of experimental group was 19.66 and in post test 31.94 after carrying out the structured teaching programme. On other side control group mean knowledge score of pretest was 19.91&in post test 21.41. Horizontal't' test findings between pre test and post test of experimental group was18.065 is highly significant at the level of P<0.001&vertical't' test value between post tests of control and experimental group was 198.677 also highly significant at the level of P<0.001. it has shown that structured teaching brought valuable change in the knowledge of school children regarding traffic safety. Recommendations: the findings of the study shown that there is need to carry out the interventions to increase the knowledge of school children regarding traffic safety which further will help to reduce the accidents&secure the school children on the roads.