NHTSA developed a new Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum to teach and encourage safe pedestrian behaviors for students at the elementary school level (grades K-5). NHTSA proposes to conduct information collections to evaluate the implementation and impact of its newly developed Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum which has been integrated into North Carolina's Let's Go NC pedestrian and bicycle curriculum. The pedestrian portion of Let's Go NC is closely modeled after the NHTSA curriculum and was intended by its developers to be a localization of the NHTSA version as suggested by the NHTSA curriculum developers. Thus, evaluating the North Carolina version of the pedestrian curriculum provides the desired assessment of the NHTSA curriculum as actually implemented by a State.
NHTSA desires to document how the pedestrian curriculum is implemented by a typical school district and whether the implementation is effective in changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. An essential part of this evaluation effort will be surveying knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors of various groups of people integral to the curriculum implementation. These groups include children in grades K-5, their parents/caregivers, and instructional staff at the test schools. The study design includes surveying equivalent groups of participants at comparison schools where the curriculum was not implemented.
NHTSA is requesting approval to conduct in-class structured oral surveys of elementary school students in all experimental and comparison schools pre- and post-curriculum implementation to assess knowledge, opinions, and self-reported experiences. Experience from previous studies of the K-5 age group showed that a one-on-one oral survey works best with this population because of their limited reading ability. The oral survey also permits the child respondent to demonstrate key search behaviors if he/she cannot verbalize them. NHTSA is also requesting approval of paper-and-pencil surveys of student caregivers and an Internet-based survey of all school instructional staff in the two experimental and two comparison schools to determine their attitudes, experiences, and self-reported behaviors related to pedestrian safety and the implementation of the curriculum. These surveys would only take place after curriculum implementation.
The reason for the program change is this is a new survey which will increae NHTSA's overall burden hour total by 517 hours over the course of one year. It is a one-time survey.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form NHTSA Form 1217 Evaluation of New Child Pedestrian Curriculum
Johnson - Appendix E Parent Notification Sheet.docx
Johnson - Appendix B-2 30 Day FR Notice.pdf
Evaluation of New Child Pedestrian Curriculum