Development, Feasibility, and Acceptability of Aim to Play, a User-Friendly Digital Application for Teacher Skills Training and Physical Education Activities for 3-5 Grade Elementary Students

Aim to Play 的开发、可行性和可接受性，这是一款用户友好的数字应用程序，用于 3-5 年级小学生的教师技能培训和体育活动

• 批准号: 10544679
• 负责人: Deborah Johnson-Shelton
• 金额: $ 25.95万
• 依托单位: SAAVSUS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-30 至 2023-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10544679
• 关键词: Development; Feasibility; Acceptability; Aim; Play

ABSTRACT Childhood physical inactivity is associated with a myriad of preventable health inequities among children, including greater prevalence and more severe childhood obesity, poorer cardiovascular and bone health and lower levels of cognitive functioning, mental health, and self-esteem. Children from low-income, minority, and rural backgrounds are particularly vulnerable for not meeting recommended levels of health-enhancing physical activity (PA) and rely more heavily on schools to obtain quality PA opportunities than other children. While 40 states currently have laws mandating elementary school physical education (PE) to promote student public health objectives, most underrepresented students do not achieve adequate PE participation because teachers (both PE certified and regular classroom teachers who teach PE) have limited or no access to easy to use and low cost programmatic resources for conducting effective, evidence-based, and standards-based PE. To address these needs, the Aim to Play™ digital application (“app”) program will be designed initially for 3rd-5th grade classroom teachers who are increasingly assuming the responsibilities of PE instruction. Teachers consistently experience PE instructional challenges due to (1) inadequate facilities, planning and teaching time, and equipment limitations; (2) varied student skill levels and experience managing student engagement; and, (3) an overall lack of instructional knowledge and training in movement and activity skills for conducting effective PE. To address these barriers, Aim to Play™ will work across platforms and devices, and provide simple, easy to use, evidence- and standards- based PE lesson activities that can be tailored by time, instructional setting (classroom, indoors/outdoors), grade, student skill level, and equipment resources, with an embedded data tracking feature to assist with state mandated reporting needs. The app will be low-cost and include brief teacher skill demonstration videos for each lesson, paired with adaptable classroom- and circuit-based (i.e. rotating activity stations) lessons for 3rd – 5th grade students with embedded music signaling transitions to assist with classroom organization. Teachers will access the program via digital handheld tablet devices, online or offline, increasing accessibility for settings with poor Wi-Fi. During this Phase I SBIR, we plan to (1) use an iterative process to develop a prototype (i.e. beta) version of the Aim to Play™ app, a cross-platform, digital program application designed for 3rd-5th grade classroom teachers, providing easy access to tailored, engaging classroom- or gym-based PE activities that meet the needs of teachers and students, and (2) evaluate the usability, satisfaction, and acceptability of the Aim to Play™ program in school settings, as well as fidelity of implementation, with 9 elementary school teachers serving diverse classrooms of low-income, rural, and/or minority children, as well as direct observation of student participation in activities. If our Phase I benchmarks are met, this will support the feasibility of Phase II activities. In Phase II, we plan to modify Aim to Play™ according to feedback obtained in Phase I surveys and exit interviews, create additional program modules, and evaluate the efficacy of Aim to Play™ via a short-term randomized control trial evaluating teacher PE knowledge, self-efficacy, practices and student engagement in under-resourced schools.

抽象的 儿童时期缺乏身体活动与儿童中许多可预防的健康不平等有关， 包括更高的患病率和更严重的儿童肥胖、心血管和骨骼健康状况较差以及水平较低 来自低收入、少数民族和农村背景的儿童的认知功能、心理健康和自尊受到影响。 特别容易因未达到推荐的促进健康的身体活动 (PA) 水平而更加依赖 与其他儿童相比，学校更加重视获得优质的 PA 机会，而目前有 40 个州有法律强制规定。 小学体育 (PE) 旨在促进学生公共卫生目标，大多数代表性不足的学生都这样做 未能实现足够的体育参与，因为教师（包括体育认证教师和教授体育的普通课堂教师） 获得易于使用和低成本的计划资源的机会有限或无法获得有效的、基于证据的、 为了满足这些需求，将设计 Aim to Play™ 数字应用程序（“app”）。 最初是为三至五年级的课堂教师提供的，他们越来越多地承担体育教师的职责。 由于 (1) 设施、规划和教学时间不足，以及 设备限制；(2) 不同的学生技能水平和管理学生参与的经验； 缺乏进行有效体育锻炼的教学知识和运动和活动技能培训。 障碍，Aim to Play™将跨平台和设备工作，并提供简单、易于使用的证据和标准- 基于体育课程的活动，可以根据时间、教学环境（教室、室内/室外）、年级、学生进行定制 技能水平和设备资源，并具有嵌入式数据跟踪功能，可协助满足国家规定的报告需求。 该应用程序成本低廉，每节课都包含简短的教师技能演示视频，并配有适应性强的应用程序 为三至五年级学生提供基于课堂和循环（即轮流活动站）的课程，并嵌入音乐 信号转换以协助课堂组织。教师将通过数字手持平板电脑访问该程序。 设备，在线或离线，增加 Wi-Fi 环境较差的环境的可访问性 在第一阶段 SBIR 期间，我们计划 (1) 使用迭代过程开发 Aim to Play™ 应用程序的原型（即测试版）版本，这是一个跨平台的数字化应用程序 专为 3 至 5 年级课堂教师设计的程序应用程序，可轻松访问量身定制的、引人入胜的课堂- 或基于体育馆的体育活动，满足教师和学生的需求，(2) 评估可用性、满意度和 Aim to Play™ 计划在学校环境中的可接受性以及实施的保真度，9 个小学 学校教师为低收入、农村和/或少数民族儿童的不同教室提供服务，并直接观察 如果我们的第一阶段基准得到满足，这将支持第二阶段活动的可行性。 在第二阶段，我们计划根据第一阶段调查和退出访谈中获得的反馈修改 Aim to Play™， 创建额外的程序模块，并通过短期随机对照试验评估 Aim to Play™ 的功效 评估资源贫乏学校的教师体育知识、自我效能、实践和学生参与度。