Monetary Equivalence: Readiness Instructional Track (Phase II)

货币等价：准备教学轨道（第二阶段）

• 批准号: 7289222
• 负责人: JOANNE B KLEDARAS
• 金额: $ 30.43万
• 依托单位: PRAXIS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7289222
• 关键词: Address; American; Arts; Behavioral; Budgets; Child; Class; Coffee; Cognitive; Coin; Communities; Complex; Computer software; Computers; Daily; Development; Disabled Persons; Discrimination; Eagles; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; End Date; Exclusion; Exhibits; Human; Image; Individual; Institution; Instruction; Instructional Technology; Intellectual functioning disability; Learning; Letters; Life; Monitor; Performance; Persons; Phase; Price; Procedures; Property; Readiness; Sampling; Services; Shapes; Side; Small Business Funding Mechanisms; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Special Education; Staging; Stimulus; Students; Testing; Washington; base; concept; consumer product; design; experience; improved; programs; prototype; size; skills; success; teacher; user-friendly

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With the majority of persons with intellectual disabilities now living in the community instead of institutions, functional use of money has become a particularly important and challenging special education priority. To address this challenge, Praxis, Inc. has undertaken development of a suite of computer-based software products designed to establish the behavioral prerequisites for functional use of money by persons with intellectual disabilities. The first product of the suite, MERIT-1, is a money skills readiness product that assesses and teaches identification of all coins and bills up to $20. To do develop this essential product, Praxis, Inc. has taken advantage of its recent experience in developing other teaching programs for establishing basic discrimination performances and equivalence classes. The programs have been supported by an extensive body of scientifically-validated procedures, all of which have been developed in NICHD-supported projects aimed at improving instructional technology for persons with intellectual disabilities. In Phase 1 of the MERIT-1 project, the Company developed prototype software that implemented the essential features of the MERIT-1 readiness curriculum. The software and supporting items were successfully field-tested, and critical milestones were achieved. The Specific Aims of this Phase-2 project are to: (1) transform the prototype software into a high quality turn-key application for teaching money discrimination skills that are prerequisite for learning the values of coin, bills, and their combinations; and (2) field-test the application to verify its effectiveness with teachers and students who are representative of those who will be the ultimate consumers of the product. The objective of the MERIT suite is to offer a comprehensive curriculum that can potentially prepare all children who have the requisite cognitive capacity to use money independently. The development of MERIT-1 (Phase 1 completed) was initiated to support special education teachers whose students have IEP (i.e., individualized educational plans) objectives relating to money skills, but who had yet to achieve success in assessing and teaching the prerequisite basic discrimination skills.

描述（由申请人提供）：现在大多数智障人士现在生活在社区而不是机构中，货币的功能使用已成为一个特别重要且具有挑战性的特殊教育优先事项。为了应对这一挑战，Praxis，Inc。已开发了一套基于计算机的软件产品，旨在建立智障人士对金钱功能使用的行为先决条件。套件的第一个产品MERIT-1是一种金钱技能准备产品，可评估和教授所有硬币和账单最高20美元的标识。为了开发这种必不可少的产品，Praxis，Inc。利用了其最近在开发其他教学计划来建立基本歧视表现和等效类别的经验。这些计划得到了广泛的科学验证程序的支持，这些程序都是在NICHD支持的项目中开发的，旨在改善智障人士的教学技术。在MERIT-1项目的第1阶段，该公司开发了实现Morit-1准备课程的基本功能的原型软件。软件和支持项目已成功进行了现场测试，并实现了关键的里程碑。该第2阶段项目的具体目的是：（1）将原型软件转换为高质量的旋转式划分申请，以学习货币歧视技能，这是学习硬币，账单及其组合价值的先决条件； （2）现场测试申请，以验证代表那些将成为产品最终消费者的教师和学生的有效性。优异套件的目的是提供一项全面的课程，该课程有可能为所有具有独立使用资金所必需的认知能力的儿童做好准备。启动了MERIT-1（第1阶段完成）的发展，以支持与货币技能有关的IEP（即个性化的教育计划）目标的特殊教育老师，但他们尚未在评估和教授先决条件的基本歧视技能方面取得成功。