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.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段将产生一个学生将在家中或学校使用的系统来改善口头阅读。该产品将帮助成千上万的公立学校地区面临严重短缺的教师，这些教师为近1400万患有阅读障碍或其他阅读障碍的学生提供特殊教育服务。该项目可以通过多种方式使教师更加有效：（1）学生将独立练习，并从计算机中获得适当的反馈，教师对学生的个人需求进行定制，（2）教师将被释放，以专注于教学新概念或提供个性化的关注或提供个性化的关注以解决特定的问题，并且（3）教师将有数字数据进步，对联邦的数字发展，不利于Inline Interivitions Actitions Actimity Inline Interivitions Actimitions Actimitions Actimitions Act（Inlines）。 （SBIR）第二阶段项目将生成一个学生将在家中或学校使用的系统来改善口头阅读。该系统将使用基于云的基础架构和最终用户应用程序与学生进行基于计算机的共同阅读，以（1）验证学生的阅读准确性并在学生犯错时提供补救措施，（2）学生的专业老师可以自定义阅读体验和补救措施，并使用学生的进度来监控学生的进度；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向教育科学研究所申请的公立学校中进行评估。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和更广泛影响的评估审查标准的评估值得支持的。