Drug Scene Investigators

毒品现场调查员

基本信息

批准号：
7846736
负责人：
Alvin Rees Midgley
金额：
$ 25.37万
依托单位：
INDEPTHLEARNING
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2007-07-01 至 2011-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7846736
关键词：
Academic achievement Achievement Address Area Back Biological Sciences Biology Comprehension Computers Data Disabled Persons Drug abuse Drug usage Drug user Economically Deprived Population Education Educational Background Educational process of instructing Effectiveness Feedback Fostering General Population Goals Gold Health Individual Information Dissemination Language Language Development Learning Life Life Experience Methods Minority Modeling National Institute of Drug Abuse Neurosciences Online Systems Outcome Pamphlets Personal Satisfaction Pharmaceutical Preparations Problem Solving Process Reading Recording of previous events Research Research Personnel Rewards Risk Schools Science Services Simulate Students Thinking Vocabulary Work Writing Youth base case history design drug of abuse experience health literacy improved interdisciplinary approach journal article literacy member middle school programs research study risk perception scaffold skills success teacher theories tool web site

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of "Drug Scene Investigators" is to educate middle school students about the biology of drugs of abuse through the use of a problem-solving game in which students carry out research in a simulated real-life situation. This game involves a multidisciplinary approach that is designed to make material comprehensible to a diverse group of learners. It partners established methods and theories used by many groups-methods shown to be effective in educating young people-but rarely employed together in a widely-available medium for a demographically diverse audience. These are: Cooperative Learning, Literacy Scaffolding, Feedback Learning, and Language of Experience. We propose to: 1) create the user interface for "Drug Scene Investigators", a highly interactive, literacy-scaffolded, multiple reading level game for teaching middle school students about the neuroscience and biology of the drugs of abuse through Feedback learning, case-presentation and cooperative learning, 2) create case histories for "Drug Scene Investigators" told in the language of experience that illustrate situations befalling a wide demographic of individual drug users, and develop drug information pages for "Drug Scene Investigators" that cover each of the major drug classes on the NIDA website, 3) implement the "Drug Scene Investigators" game for use in classrooms, and 4) use students and teachers in middle school classrooms to obtain feedback and evaluate the feasibility of using "Drug Scene Investigators" to improve understanding of drugs of abuse. Our hypothesis is that the principles of cooperative learning, literacy scaffolding, feedback learning, and the language of experience can be combined in the context of a motivational, computer-based game to help improve student understanding of drug abuse in a way that fosters critical thinking and reduces the achievement gap often seen with minority or economically disadvantaged students. Students will interact with this game by studying a case, viewing a scene, doing experiments, examining lab data, recording useful information, reading drug information pages, and, based on the information, deciding if an assigned drug is involved with the case. Outcomes will be evaluated in 26 schools and 3900 middle school students. We expect the project will contribute to improving the education of our youth, not only with respect to improved comprehension of drug abuse sciences, but to other areas of life science. What we propose to create can become a model for web-based learning that can be made widely available to schools and the general public and become an important tool for enhancing understanding of drug abuse.

描述（由申请人提供）：“毒品现场调查员”的目标是通过使用解决问题的游戏来教育中学生了解滥用药物的生物学，学生在模拟的现实生活中进行研究。该游戏采用多学科方法，旨在使不同群体的学习者能够理解材料。它与许多团体使用的既定方法和理论合作——这些方法被证明对教育年轻人有效——但很少在广泛使用的媒体中针对不同人口群体的受众一起使用。它们是：合作学习、读写能力支架、反馈学习和经验语言。我们建议：1）为“毒品现场调查员”创建用户界面，这是一个高度互动、识字支架、多阅读级别的游戏，用于通过反馈学习、案例教学向中学生传授滥用药物的神经科学和生物学知识。演示和合作学习，2) 为“毒品现场调查员”创建案例历史，以经验语言讲述，说明广大吸毒者个体所面临的情况，并为“毒品现场调查员”开发毒品信息页面涵盖 NIDA 网站上每个主要毒品类别的“调查员”，3）在课堂上实施“毒品现场调查员”游戏，4）在中学课堂上让学生和教师获取反馈并评估使用的可行性“毒品现场调查员”旨在提高对药物滥用的了解。我们的假设是，合作学习、识字支架、反馈学习和经验语言的原则可以结合在基于计算机的激励游戏的背景下，以培养批判性思维的方式帮助提高学生对药物滥用的理解并缩小少数族裔或经济困难学生常见的成绩差距。学生将通过研究案例、观看场景、做实验、检查实验室数据、记录有用信息、阅读药物信息页面来与该游戏进行互动，并根据信息确定分配的药物是否与该案例有关。结果将对 26 所学校和 3900 名中学生进行评估。我们期望该项目将有助于改善我们年轻人的教育，不仅在提高对药物滥用科学的理解方面，而且在生命科学的其他领域。我们建议创建的内容可以成为基于网络的学习模型，可以广泛向学校和公众提供，并成为增强对药物滥用了解的重要工具。