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This study was carried out to investigate the impact of environmental clubs on the knowledge and attitude of students of University of Benin Demonstration Secondary School towards road safety signs. Four research questions and two hypotheses were raised and analyzed for the purpose of the study. A random sampling technique was used in selection of sixty (60) students which would be drawn from all SS1 and SS2 students in University of Benin Demonstration Secondary School were randomly selected for the study. The data were collected with questionnaire instrument and analyzed using simple percentage. It was revealed that students from the experimental group who participated in road safety trainings have good attitude toward road safety compared to students in the control group who were not part of the training. The difference in their attitudes was significant, based on the data from the findings of this study. It was also revealed through further findings of this study that students from the experimental group who participated in road safety trainings have adequate knowledge about road safety signs compared to students in the control group who were not part of the training. Only few of the students in the control group could relate with those road safety signs. More findings of this study indicated that it is obvious that the effectiveness of road safety teachings in school cannot be compared to that of the environmental club. This can evidently be seen in students from the control who could not relate well with the road safety signs even though they were being taught in school. This study was able to find out the significance of the road safety training in the environmental club by being able to differentiate between the knowledge and attitude of those who participated in road safety trainings and those who did not. The activities of environmental clubs including road safety teachings can be promoted by encouraging teachers to become involved in the club to raise awareness about the club within the school and promote its activities to students.
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