SBIR Phase II: Testing and Optimizing Digital Tools Aimed at Promoting Parent/Caregiver-Mediated Dialogic Reading from Infancy to Kindergarten Entry and through First Grade

SBIR 第二阶段：测试和优化数字工具，旨在促进从婴儿期到幼儿园入学直至一年级的家长/看护者介导的对话阅读

• 批准号: 1830985
• 负责人: Alice Letvin
• 金额: $ 69.24万
• 依托单位: Read, Ask, Chat, Ltd.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1830985&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Testing; Optimizing

This SBIR Phase II project will expand on Phase I R&D work to build, test, and optimize a web-based software system for the classroom setting to complement the digital library app for home use developed in Phase I. This cost-effective system will further promote adult-mediated dialogic reading routines with children 0-7 years in age. Early exposure to dialogic reading has been shown to foster virtually all school and reading-readiness indicators - from cognitive and social-emotional development to vocabulary attainment and concepts about print. The new system also introduces foundational science knowledge and habits, such as the capacity to observe, experiment, and problem solve. The ever-widening education attainment and opportunity gaps between rich and poor result in diminished human potential and citizens unequipped for the demands of an information-based labor market. Investments in early childhood can prevent educational deficits, so a cost-effective system that coaches adults to engage children in a dialogic reading process can make a substantial contribution to ending school-readiness gaps - the precursor to persistent achievement gaps - and the cycle of economic and societal disadvantages they perpetuate. This project also addresses the urgent need to bolster the teaching of higher-order thinking skills by early education teachers. The market for early-education digital products is sizable and growing. Purchasers in this market are K-3 schools, preschools, Head Start, social- service agencies, and libraries, as well as individual families.This project will build the technical capacity to augment and measure the growth of adult-led dialogic reading with children 0-7 years in age. The systems architecture and proprietary algorithms will produce a system that increases adult capacity for dialogic questioning and exploration by using the copyrighted, text-specific guidance embedded in the library. Metrics, children's work product, and online adult-learning modules aim to incentivize and build teacher/caregiver confidence, inform school leaders, and focus them on continued application of the dialogic process to other books and subjects. Augmentations to the content management system developed in Phase I will enable the sales, distribution, management, and evaluation of all product form factors. The secure data-sharing portal and dashboard built through this project will allow institutional clients to monitor and evaluate their programs. R&D will include collection of engagement metrics, including usage data (access to which is built into the digital library) and online surveys. The core innovation to be studied is whether this product enables adults of varying educational backgrounds to practice an intellectually ambitious reading and thinking method with their children.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个SBIR II期项目将扩展I阶段研发工作，以构建，测试和优化基于Web的软件系统，以补充数字图书馆应用程序，以补充I阶段I中开发的房屋使用。该成本效益的系统将进一步促进成人介导的对话读取程序与儿童0-7岁。已经显示出早期接触对话的阅读可培养几乎所有学校和阅读准备指标 - 从认知和社会情感发展到词汇成就和有关印刷的概念。新系统还引入了基础科学知识和习惯，例如观察，实验和问题解决的能力。富人与贫困之间不断扩大的教育成就和机会差距导致人类潜力减少，而公民则无法满足基于信息的劳动力市场的需求。在幼儿期的投资可以防止教育缺陷，因此，教练成年人参与对话阅读过程的成本效益系统可以为消除学校的精通差距做出重大贡献 - 持续成就差距的前身，以及他们永久性的经济和社会障碍的循环。该项目还解决了早期教育老师的高阶思维技能教学的迫切需求。早期教育数字产品的市场很大，而且不断增长。该市场上的购买者是K-3学校，学龄前，启动，社会服务机构和图书馆以及个别家庭。该项目将建立技术能力，以增强和衡量成人领导的对话阅读的增长，年龄为0-7岁。系统体系结构和专有算法将通过使用嵌入在图书馆中的版权保护的，特定于文本的指导来产生一个系统，从而增加成人进行对话质疑和探索的能力。指标，儿童工作产品和在线成人学习模块旨在激励和建立教师/照顾者的信心，告知学校领导者，并将他们集中在继续将对话过程应用于其他书籍和主题上。在第一阶段开发的内容管理系统的增强将使所有产品形式的销售，分销，管理和评估。通过该项目构建的安全数据共享门户和仪表板将使机构客户可以监视和评估其程序。研发将包括收集参与度指标，包括使用数据（在数字库中内置的访问）和在线调查。要研究的核心创新是该产品是否使成年人能够与孩子一起实践具有智力上雄心勃勃的阅读和思维方式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来进行评估的。