Grades 1-12 a conceptual understanding vocabulary booklet road safety education

Engagement
The successful involvement of the intervention participants and/or target 
group in the intervention.
Enhance 
Add something extra to make more intense or better
Ensuring 
Make certain in the future
Environment
The area in which something exists or lives
Envisaged 
Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Ephedrine
White odourless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the ge-
nus ephedra (especially ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a 
bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
Ethical issues
All research, including evaluation, must be conducted ethically. This means 
that attention must be given to protecting participants from harm; to bal-
ancing the benefits of taking part against the risks; and to respecting indi-
viduals’ ability to freely make their own decisions.
Evaluation 
Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
Evaluation
Evaluation is a systematic way of making a judgement about the value, 
merit, or worth of your intervention. Evaluation can also help you to improve 
your intervention.
Examiner for driv-
ing licenses
An examiner for driving licenses registered and appointed in terms of the 
laws to test people for driving licenses
Examiner of vehi-
cles
An examiner of vehicles registered and appointed in terms of the laws to test 
the roadworthiness of the vehicles
Excessive 
Beyond normal limits
Excitability 
Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part
Existence
The state or fact of existing
F
Facilitate 
Be of use
Facilitator
A facilitator is someone who helps others to understand. The term ‘facilitator’ 
is commonly used to refer to someone who runs a focus group interview.