DESCRIPTORS

The document contains a comprehensive historic. review of. the field of driver education, now called driver-and traffic safety education, which has been taught in'the public schools for more than 30 4earS, The first of, eight chapterstraces the early histOry oesafety education;from colonial times through the 1940Ls,-including the beginnings of driver education in the mid-1930's., Chapter 2 focuses on contributions to the growth and development of driver:and.traffic safety education up to 1965.when more than 13,000 sChoolS.were giving this type of instruction to over 1,700,000 student.°Teacher preparation and certification are discussed in Chapter.3. ChapFEV4 presents the local ' organization, administration/ and supervision of driver education programs which led-to the development of State-level policies. The remaining chapters deal with measuring Studeht progress (through knowledge and skill tests, driver attitudes, psychophysical testing, an comparative studies)