Developing an interactive multimedia content to enhance road safety Education for primary school pupils in Tanzania

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Date
2019
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University of Dar es salaam
Abstract
Pedestrian road accidents are one of the top three causes of death for people after HIV/AIDS and malaria sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, SUMATRA report of 2017 indicates that the majority of victims of pedestrian road accidents were children aged 5 to 12 years. Several efforts have been made by the government of Tanzania to enhance road safety education to children, which includes road safety awareness programs via TVs, radio, and billboard advertisements. Due to the advancement of ICT in education several training. However, these content are designed and developed in alignment to other countries road safety education curriculum therefore, they cannot be generalized to Tanzania. Extreme programming practices were used in the design and development process of the interactive multimedia content. Questionnaires were used to collect data from pupils in order to evaluate effectiveness of the content in a pre-test and post-test design. Furthermore, focus group discussions were used to collect opinions from teachers and traffic police officers on the pedagogical effectiveness of the content. From the findings the content seemed to enhance road safety education whereby there was an increase of percentage of pupils who got the correct questions in the post-test such that (75% of pupils from Osterbay, 90% of pupils from Saku and 79.2% of pupils from Mlimani) in Pedestrian crossing rules, (70% of pupils from Osterbay, 65% of pupils from Saku and 82.%% of pupils from Mlimani) in Road traffic signs rules and (91.7% of pupils from Osterbay, 84.2% of pupils from Saku and 85% of pupils from Mlimani) in acceptable and proper behaviours on the road
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Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr.Wilbert Chagula Library, class mark (THS EAF HE5614.T34M348)
Keywords
Traffic safety, Education primary, Study and teaching, Tanzania
Citation
Makundi, F. (2019), Developing an interactive multimedia content to enhance road safety Education for primary school pupils in Tanzania, Masters dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam.