Application of Problem-Based Learning on the Teaching Plan of Parent-child Traffic Safety Education for Elementary School

• Main Authors: CHANG,HSIAO-PING, 張曉萍
• Other Authors: Cho, Yuh-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68616674891313305772

碩士 === 中華大學 === 運輸科技與物流管理學系碩士班 === 100 === This thesis aims to apply the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method to design a course plan of traffic safety education which is suitable to the elementary school students and their parents learning togather. The purpose of this course is to make students and parents have the right knowledge and ideas about the traffic safety, for example, crossing the road, the blind zone and the difference of radius between inner wheels. This study firstly conducted a questionnaire about the need and importance of parent-child traffic safety courses to the elementary school teachers in the Tachia district and Waipu district of Taichung city. The effective questionnaires are two hundred and fifty-seven samples. The results of the analysis of questionnaires indicated that it is the most appropriate to use “the way to cross the road” and “the safety of walking on the road” as lesson units of parent-child traffic safety courses. Therefore, this study combined the teaching concept and procedure of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method with the cases, videos and parent-child discussions into a set of demonstration lesson plans of the proposed parent-child traffic safety courses. The content of course includs “crossing the road”, “the blind zone”, and “the difference of radius between inner wheels” units. Then, the designed lesson plans were implemented to the Hua-Long elementary school. By using the quasi-experimental design, the junior and senior students and their parents were divided into three groups, the experimental group with fifteen parent-child pairs, the first control group with twenty students, and the second control group with thirteen parent-child pairs. The experimental group and the first control group were conducted by the proposed PBL-based course, as well as the second control group was adopted by the 2006 version of classical traffic safety course. There groups took the before and after tests to analyze the learning outcome of PBL-based course. This study analyzed the learning effect through statistical methods, such as the Wilcoxon rank sum test, Mann-Whitney U test, and paired samples t test. Then, the outcome showed that the average score of the experimental group is significantly superior than that of two control groups. Such a resuly indicated that PBL method and the way of parent-child learning togather can not only apply to the implementation of traffic safety education but also enhance the cognition of traffic safety knowledge of the elementary school students and their parents.