Evaluation of the FASIKI traffic safety programme for parents of cycling children |
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| Institution: | 1. sicher unterwegs – Verkehrspsychologische Untersuchungen GmbH, Schottenfeldgasse 28/8, 1070 Wien, Austria;2. Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, Austria;3. Wien, Austria;1. Department of Safety, Security and the Environment, Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo, Norway;2. Directorate of Public Roads, Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Norway;1. Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Transportation Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environment, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;3. NTNU Samfunnsforskning, Studio Apertura, Norway;1. Department of Nursing, University of Valencia, Jaume Roig, s/n, 46010 Valencia, Spain;2. AFIPS research group, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain;3. Department of Teaching of Musical, Visual and Corporal Expression, University of Valencia, Avda. dels Tarongers, 4, 46022 Valencia, Spain;4. Body, movement and curricular practices-COS research group, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain;1. Active Living Laboratory, School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;2. Dunedin City Council, Dunedin, New Zealand;3. Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;4. Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;5. Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The voluntary cycling test is an important milestone in traffic education in primary school. Cycling helps to develop traffic competences and traffic sense, it increases the mobility range of children and also improves sustainable mobility. On the other hand, data shows that beginning with school age more children have accidents due to cycling (Drott, Johansson, & Aström, 2008; Funk, 2013). The aim of the paper is to show that a measure that can be easily implemented in given structures could help to enhance safe cycling behaviour of children. The voluntary cycling test for ten-year-old children in Austria was complemented with a short traffic psychological intervention for parents called FASIKI. The main aim of the FASIKI programme is to promote a safe cycling performance for children. Therefore, the programme should show parents the average developmental status of their ten-year-old children, so that they can train them in an adequate way as far as age and competence level is concerned. From a traffic psychological point of view it is important for safe cycling behaviour that parents do not over- or underestimate the traffic competences of their children. The present study aimed to verify the effectiveness of the FASIKI programme using Kirkpatrick’s four level evaluation model. Based on a pre-post design, first changes in knowledge and attitudes of parents who attended the programme as well as the impact of the programme on the practical skills of their children in the voluntary cycling test were assessed. The results show positive effects of the FASIKI programme on both, parents’ knowledge and attitudes, and on children’s practical skills. Parental intentions to do cycling exercises with their children were strengthened. Finally, practical implications and policy recommendations concerning traffic safety for children are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Cycling skills of children Traffic safety programme Parents Traffic education Traffic competences Evaluation |
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