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Title:

An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation Education Program for Ninth Graders
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Accession Number:

01589894

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The "Engineering VOLunteers for Ninth Graders” (eVOL9), a summer educational and experiential learning program for rising ninth grade students, was organized by the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. The purpose of eVOL9 is to provide rising 9th grade students an awareness of engineering career opportunities and also to prepare these students for college. This paper summarizes the efforts on the transportation engineering section of the eVOL9 program in June 2015. The program aimed to not only alert, engage, motivate, and excite the participants about some aspects of transportation engineering, but also to provide an avenue for road safety education for teenagers, the highest crash risk age group. The primary foci of the transportation-based projects were first to introduce young minds to aspects of transportation engineering, particularly on how human and vehicle factors impact the design and operation of roadways and secondly, to educate teenagers on why road safety should be of value and priority to them. To assess the impact of the transportation engineering section of the eVOL9 program, online surveys and in-class tests before and after eVOL9 were carried out. Results of the evaluations showed a positive impact on the 30 high school students who participated in the program. This program offers significant promise and can be replicated at other settings by adapting this program.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABG20 Standing Committee on Transportation Education and Training. Alternate title: An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation Experiential Learning Program for Ninth Graders.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-3597

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Nambisan, Shashi
Boakye, Kwaku F
Lemons, Ebony

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References

Geographic Terms:

Tennessee

Subject Areas:

Education and Training; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-3597

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 5:34PM