Functional Money Skills Readiness Training: Teaching Relative Values

功能性货币技能准备培训：教授相对价值观

• 批准号: 7482586
• 负责人: JOANNE B KLEDARAS
• 金额: $ 15.01万
• 依托单位: PRAXIS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-18 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7482586
• 关键词: Address; Algorithms; Arts; Autistic Disorder; Behavior; Behavioral; Child; Cognitive; Coin; Computer software; Computers; Controlled Study; Decision Making; Development; Disabled Children; Discrimination; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Environment; Individual; Instruction; Intellectual functioning disability; Judgment; Learning; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Names; Nickel; Numbers; Outcome; Participant; Performance; Phase; Population; Procedures; Psychological reinforcement; Public Health; Published Comment; Range; Rate; Readiness; Reinforcement Schedule; Relative (related person); Sampling; Schools; Series; Shapes; Simulate; Special Education; Stimulus; Students; Title; Training; Training Programs; Work; autism spectrum disorder; base; concept; design; improved; instructor; programs; prototype; skills; skills training; teacher; user-friendly; validation studies

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Fast-track application addresses the problem of teaching children with autism and related intellectual disabilities to discriminate among items of relatively greater or lesser symbolic value. The context for instruction is an evolving suite of computer-based and computer-managed matching-to-sample programs for teaching functional money skills. Foundational work accomplished thus far has demonstrated effective methodology for teaching critical prerequisite skills, among them (a) to discriminate individual coins and coin combinations on the basis of identity, (b) to relate different coin combinations of equivalent value (e.g., 25 cents with 5 nickels), and (c) to select series of different coin combinations of equivalent value from a large unsorted pool that provides a number of potentially valid choices (e.g., given a 25 cent sample to select combinations of two dimes and a nickel, a dime and three nickels, and/or five nickels). The current money skills program has implemented a number of state-of-the-art curricular approaches including potentially errorless assessment and instruction, stimulus equivalence development, automated decision-making algorithms for assessing student progress and determining advancement within the program, and methods for encouraging facile generalization from computer-based training to tabletop environments and vice versa. The proposed addition to the money skills teaching suite has the working title ValueTeacher (VT). As the name implies, the VT program takes the next logical step in money skills training, explicitly teaching children to discriminate coins and coin combinations of greater vs. lesser value and to make inferences based on such relationships. The computer-managed VT program will take advantage of a number of advanced behavioral programming procedures, among them multiple and concurrent schedules of reinforcement, percentile-based automated shaping of progressively finer value judgments, and outcome-specific reinforcement. In Phase 1, prototype software will be developed to assess and teach discrimination of coin values up to 50 cents as proof of concept. In Phase 2, the procedures will be extended to values up to $5.00 and incorporated within a state-of-the-art user interface that will promote effective use of the program by behavior therapists, special education teachers, and other educators of children with intellectual disabilities. In both Phases, additional curricula will be provided to assist in generalization of skills acquired in the classroom to real-world purchasing situations. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE Our objective is to complete development of the MERIT suite, a computer-based curriculum that can potentially prepare children who have the requisite cognitive capacity to use money independently. We believe that the MERIT product suite has the potential to significantly improve the effectiveness of money skills instruction for children with intellectual disabilities, many of whom make at best slow and uneven progress in learning this critical skill.

描述（由申请人提供）：此快速应用程序解决了教学自闭症儿童和相关智障儿童的问题，以区分相对或更少的符号价值的项目。教学的上下文是一套不断发展的基于计算机的和计算机管理的匹配程序，用于教授功能性货币技能。迄今为止完成的基本工作已经证明了教授关键先决条件技能的有效方法，其中（a）根据身份区分个人硬币和硬币组合，（（b）将不同的等效价值的不同硬币组合（例如，25个CENTS）（例如25个CENTS与5个镍）和（c）选择一系列不同的COIN量的数量组合，以选择一系列不同的COIN量的组合，以选择一系列不同的COIN组合，以选择一系列的量相等的量值组合。 （例如，给出25美分的样本，以选择两个角色和一个镍，一角钱和三个镍和/或五个镍的组合）。当前的货币技能计划已实施了许多最先进的课程方法，包括潜在的无误评估和指导，刺激等效性的发展，自动化决策算法，用于评估学生进步和确定计划中的进步以及鼓励从计算机培训到桌面环境和副措施Versa的计算机培训的方法。拟议的金钱技能教学套件的补充是工作的标题估值老师（VT）。顾名思义，VT计划在金钱技能培训中采取了下一个合乎逻辑的步骤，明确教给孩子区分硬币和更高价值与较低价值的硬币组合，并根据这种关系进行推断。计算机管理的VT程序将利用许多先进的行为编程程序，其中包括多个加强和并发计划，基于百分比的基于百分比的自动化构建，逐渐提高价值判断以及特定于结果的增强。在第1阶段，将开发原型软件来评估和教授对高达50美分的硬币价值的歧视，作为概念证明。在第2阶段，该程序将扩展到最高$ 5.00的价值，并将其纳入最先进的用户界面，该界面将促进行为治疗师，特殊教育老师和其他智力残疾儿童的教育者有效地使用该计划。在这两个阶段中，都将提供其他课程，以协助在课堂上获得的技能概括到现实世界中的购买情况。公共卫生相关性我们的目标是完成基于计算机的课程的功绩套件的开发，该课程有可能为具有独立使用资金的必要认知能力做好准备。我们认为，优异产品套件有可能显着提高智障儿童的货币技能指导的有效性，其中许多人在学习这种关键技能方面最多可以缓慢而不平衡。