Effectiveness of a Video-Assisted Teaching Program on Road Safety Knowledge Among Adolescents

Abstract

The study aims to assess adolescents' current knowledge of road safety, determining the impact of a video-assisted teaching program on their knowledge of road safety, and determining the relationship between the mean knowledge score of adolescents on road safety and specific demographic variables. Additionally, the study aimed to evaluate adolescents' knowledge of road safety on both the pre-test and post-test. Von Ludwig Bertalanffy's General System theory served as the foundation for the investigation. The research employed a pre-test-post-test design with a single group before the experiment. The sample size consisted of forty adolescents from BJSM Madathil V H S School in Thazhava, Kollam. A simple non-probability sampling procedure was used to choose them. According to the findings, the average knowledge score on the pre-test was 16.5 and the average score on the post-test was 22.27. This suggests that the average knowledge score on the post-test is significantly greater than the average score on the pre-test. This indicated that the video-assisted teaching approach is beneficial in increasing teenagers' awareness of traffic safety. This study suggests similar types of educational programs can be included in the student’s curriculum.