SBIR Phase II: Computer-based co-reading for students with reading disabilities

SBIR 第二阶段：为有阅读障碍的学生提供基于计算机的共同阅读

• 批准号: 2321439
• 负责人: Luke Voelk
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: OBJECTIVE ED, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321439&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Computer; based

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II will produce a system that students will use at home or at school to improve their oral reading. The product will help thousands of public-school districts that are facing a severe shortage of teachers who provide Special Education services to almost 14 million students with dyslexia or other reading disabilities. The project could make teachers more effective in several ways: (1) students will practice independently, and receive appropriate feedback from the computer, customized by the teacher for the individual needs of the student, (2) teachers will be freed up to concentrate on teaching new concepts or to provide individualized attention to resolve specific problems, and (3) teachers will have digital data to track student progress, a mandated requirement of the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) act.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will produce a system that students will use at home or at school to improve their oral reading. This system will use a cloud-based infrastructure and end-user application to perform computer-based co-reading with the student that will (1) validate the student’s reading accuracy and offer remediations when the student makes a mistake, (2) allow the student’s specialized teacher to customize the reading experience and the remediations, and to monitor the student’s progress, (3) use engaging book content, (5) capture audio of the student’s oral reading, and (6) provide to the teacher with the captured audio, the corresponding text of that audio using Natural Language Processing, and the student’s mistakes. This system will be evaluated in public schools with sufficient numbers of students to apply to the Institute of Education Sciences for What Works Clearinghouse certification.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.

小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第二阶段将开发一个系统，学生可以在家里或学校使用该系统来提高口语阅读能力。该产品将帮助数千个面临提供特殊教师严重短缺的公立学区。该项目为近 1400 万患有阅读障碍或其他阅读障碍的学生提供教育服务，可以通过以下几个方式提高教师的效率：(1) 学生将独立练习，并从计算机接收适当的反馈，这些反馈是由教师根据学生的个人需求定制的。学生，（2）教师将被解放专注于教授新概念或提供个性化关注来解决特定问题，并且 (3) 教师将拥有数字数据来跟踪学生的进度，这是联邦残疾人教育法案 (IDEA) 法案的强制性要求。这种小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将开发一个系统，学生将在家里或学校使用该系统来提高他们的口语阅读能力。该系统将使用基于云的基础设施和最终用户应用程序来与计算机进行共同阅读。学生将（1）验证学生的阅读准确性并在学生犯错误时提供补救措施，(2) 允许学生的专业老师定制阅读体验和补救措施，并监控学生的进度，(3) 使用引人入胜的书籍内容，(5) 捕获学生的音频(6) 向老师提供捕获的音频、使用自然语言处理的音频的相应文本以及学生的错误。该系统将在有足够数量的学生申请的公立学校进行评估。教育科学研究所What Works Clearinghouse 认证。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。