Home-Study Driver Education or Classroom Course?
Can we consider the home-study driver education a replacer for
the traditional 30-hours classroom course?
With a view to obtain a proper result to this issue some
specialists made a comparison between performance and background
knowledge levels of some students, picked up randomly to
accomplish three different driver ducation courses and another
randomly chosen students to complete the other traditional
course. We should add that the home study driver education
courses which were to be tested comprised of two courses
designed by Sky's The Limit Interactive under the contract of
DMV: the interactive CD ROM course and a paper book for
practice, both of them warring the license of Private
Educational Network's(PEN) courses on the Internet and workbooks.
Moreover, the participants chosen randomly from California by
means of voluntary application forms for participating in the
study were assigned with both standard driver education and the
some of three home-study courses. What should be also said is
the fact that almost all the driver education schools
participating in the research made an offer of highly reduced
costs for students applying for the study, so as to enable
teenagers by the permission of their parents to enroll in this
research. At the end of the courses, DMV made a comparison
between the results and performances of the students on both
sides of the four courses, by means of an exam given at the end
of the course, the DMV writing skills test and the DMV 'behind
the wheel' drive test so as to remark if there were different
levels of knowledge and performances given by the usage of the
two different courses.
At the end of the test the balance seemed to be in favor of the
home-study driver education, this way the primary question being
answered. Researchers claim it is somewhat linked to the degree
of focusing, interest and result, as a cause effect relation for
the ones who have taken the home-study driver education which is
bound to be the best alternative for the standard 30-hours
classroom course.