A Study To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Video-Assisted Games & Mock Drills On Knowledge &Practice On Road Safety Measures Among Middle School Students In Selected Schools In Jabalpur.

ABSTRACT : Road traffic accidents are one of the main causes of death and injury/disability to children of school age from age group 6to12years.Accident tragically are often due to ignorance, carelessness, thoughtlessness and overconfidence. The consequences of accidents affect seriously children's health and growth, and interfere in their studies and future.The methodology adopted for assessing the knowledge of school-going children regarding the prevention of road accident. Assessing the knowledge of school – going students regarding the prevention of road accidents. the research approach for this study is quantitative and pre experimental one group pretest posttest design . The sample size 60 was selected by purposive sampling The accessible population was (6th , 7th , 8th, ) at green valley public school students Jabalpur .Analysis revealed that there was marked Pre – test knowledge score of the students in pre test poor 3 [5 % ] , average score is 28 [ 48 .6 % ] and good score is 29 [ 48.3 % ] .Post test knowledge score of students , poor score is 0 [0%] , average score is 7 [11.6% ] and good score is 53 [ 88.3 % ], the pre test mean is 19.80 and in post test mean score is 6.16 and standard deviation of pre test is 5.99 and standard deviation of post test is 3.23 and calculated t – value is 17.57 . On the pre – test knowledge, it was found that age [chi square 0.99] so the association of each variable with level of pretest knowledge score is significant .