RDE-FRI: Classroom Accommodations for STEM Educators with a Disability

RDE-FRI：为残疾 STEM 教育工作者提供的课堂住宿

• 批准号: 0435675
• 负责人: Karen Milchus
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0435675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RDE; FRI; Classroom; Accommodations; STEM

This project will examine the workplace accommodation needs of K-12 and postsecondary science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educators with disabilities. Workplace accommodations have typically been examined on a case-by-case basis. While there are numerous examples of successful and effective solutions that meet the needs of individual employees, there has been little effort to aggregate these case studies to examine trends, understand what works and for whom, and develop more universally applicable accommodations. This project will build on the resources of CATEA's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Workplace Accommodations and Southeast Disability and Business TechnicalAssistance Center (SE DBTAC) to investigate the strategies and technologies that might help a person with a disability enter STEM education, return to work after acquiring a disability, or to counter the difficulties in performing work tasks due to aging. This project will use surveys and focus groups to research the accommodation needs of K-12 and postsecondary STEM educators who have a disability, and address assistive technology that will fill these needs. Project staff will then use this information to develop fact sheets, policy briefs, and a web course to assist educators and school administration, and to provide recommendations for future product development that addresses common workplace accommodation needs. The project will makeuse of organizations such as NSTA, AAAS, and ACS to recruit educators with disabilities and disseminate the results. The availability of effective accommodations not only allows students with disabilities to pursuecareers within STEM education, but accommodations for educators may also prove to be effective with their students with disabilities.

该项目将研究K-12和大专科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育者的工作场所住宿需求。通常逐案检查工作场所的住宿。尽管有许多成功有效的解决方案的实例可以满足各个员工的需求，但几乎没有努力汇总这些案例研究以检查趋势，了解什么有效和谁，并开发更普遍适用的住宿。该项目将基于CATEA康复工程研究中心（RERC）在工作场所的住宿，东南残疾和商业技术协助中心（SE DBTAC）的资源，以调查可能有助于残疾人进入STEM教育的策略和技术，在获得残疾之后返回工作，或者在获得工作中返回工作，以应对较困难的工作。该项目将使用调查和焦点小组来研究具有残疾的K-12和高等STEM教育者的适应需求，并解决将满足这些需求的辅助技术。然后，项目人员将使用此信息来开发事实说明，政策摘要和网络课程，以协助教育工作者和学校管理，并为未来的产品开发提供建议，以满足共同的工作场所住宿需求。该项目将使NSTA，AAAS和ACS等组织招募残疾人教育者并传播结果。有效的住宿的可用性不仅允许残疾学生在STEM教育中追求专业人士，而且教育工作者的住宿也可能被证明与残疾学生有效。