ABSTRACT
As the number of motorcyclists on the roads increased so did the number of crashes and fatalities. On a broad scale, motorcycle rider training programs fall under the large umbrella of driver education. The interaction between perceptual-motor driving skills and decision-making suggests the need to educate new drivers about decision-making strategies for survival rather than only developing their perceptual-motor skills for operating a vehicle. Program development in driver education has omitted some important program planning requirements to enable program delivery and evaluation to take place effectively. Most motorcycle rider education program evaluations were designed to judge the effectiveness of the program’s impact on trained motorcyclists’ driving behavior. Early studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness of driver education in reducing the number of accidents experienced by participants were replete with methodological problems. Accident records have continued to be used as the evaluation criteria for driver training based on the assumption that the goal of driver education is to reduce accidents.
