ESCALA (Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career)

ESCALA（Escuela y Carrera Latina/拉丁裔学校和职业）

基本信息

批准号：
9133838
负责人：
CHARLES R MARTINEZ
金额：
$ 22.48万
依托单位：
IRIS MEDIA, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-04-13 至 2017-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9133838
关键词：
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项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will develop ESCALA (Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career), a mobile web app designed to increase the college and lowest educational attainment in the United States. Because educational attainment is a major social determinant of health, it is not surprising that Latinos also experience poor health outcomes compared to whites, especially in the areas of obesity, depression, diabetes, and teen pregnancy. Although Latino parents recognize education as vital to their children's future, Latino adolescents perceive postsecondary education as largely unattainable due to a lack of viable role models for students, parents' unfamiliarity with college preparation processes, limited English skills, cultural differences between students and teachers, and having to financially support their family, especially in the case of Latina teenage mothers. In response to these identified barriers, ESCALA proposes to impact Latino students' college and career preparedness by intervening with students, parents, and school staff. The ESCALA app will include (a) dual language (Spanish/English), culturally relevant training videos that clarify the college prep process, (b) action plans for accomplishing concrete goals, and (c) decision‐making tools with which to facilitate informed choices about students' post‐secondary education aims. To ensure that Latino families have ready access to these materials, we will make the intervention available through mobile (i.e., smartphone) technology, which has rapidly established itself as an important communication tool among Latinos. Phase I will focus on development of a scaled‐down prototype of ESCALA that can be "scaled out" in Phase II. Development will occur with focus groups, consultant input, and usability testing. We will conduct an initial evaluation with a sample of 40 Latino students and their parents to determine the social validity, perceived efficacy, behavioral intention to use the learned strategies, and satisfaction with the program's tone and content. In Phase II, we will complete the parent and student components of ESCALA and add the module for school personnel. We will then evaluate the entire program's efficacy in a large randomized controlled trial. The project's Principal Investigators and development and research personnel are fluent Spanish speakers with familial ties to Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean cultures. Project team members have years of experience in translational research involving media and Internet technologies. The project benefits from partnership with Dr. Charles Martinez from the Center for Equity Promotion at the University of Oregon, and Dr. Matt Coleman from the Educational Policy Improvement Center and Springfield Public Schools, serving a large Latino student population. The necessary institutional support, equipment and physical resources are available to develop and disseminate the program. IRIS Ed has a history of completing Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects, and prides itself on its commitment to successfully commercializing training interventions.

描述（由应用程序提供）：拟议的项目将开发Escala（Escuela Y Carrera Latina/Latina School and Career），这是一种移动网络应用程序，旨在增加美国的大学和最低的教育程度。因为教育成就是一个主要的社会尽管拉丁裔父母认为教育对孩子的未来至关重要，但由于缺乏对学生的榜样，父母对大学准备过程，有限的英语技能，学生和老师之间的文化差异，并且必须在经济上支持他们的家庭，尤其是在他们的家庭中，尤其是对他们的家人，尤其是在拉蒂纳·拉蒂纳（Latina core of Latina）的青少年青少年青少年青少年，这在很大程度上是无法实现的，这在很大程度上是无法实现的。为了应对这些确定的障碍，Escala提议通过与学生，父母和学校工作人员进行干预，以影响拉丁裔学生的大学和职业准备。 ESCALA应用程序将包括（a）双语言（西班牙语/英语），阐明大学准备过程的文化相关培训视频，（b）实现具体目标的行动计划，以及（c）决策工具，以促进有关学生的专业后教育目标。为了确保拉丁裔家庭可以准备好使用这些材料，我们将通过移动（即智能手机）技术进行干预，该技术已迅速将自己确立为拉丁美洲人的重要沟通工具。第一阶段将着重于开发ESCALA的缩放式原型，该原型可以在II阶段中“缩放”。焦点小组，顾问投入和可用性测试将发生发展。我们将对40名拉丁裔学生及其父母的样本进行初步评估，以确定社会有效性，可感知的效率，采用学习策略的行为意图以及对计划的基调和内容满意的。在第二阶段，我们将完成Escala的父母和学生组成部分，并为学校人员添加模块。然后，我们将在大型随机对照试验中评估整个程序的有效性。该项目的主要研究人员以及发展和研究人员是流利的西班牙语者，与墨西哥，中美洲和加勒比文化有家庭关系。项目团队成员在涉及媒体和互联网技术的转化研究方面具有多年的经验。该项目受益于俄勒冈大学公平促进中心的Charles Martinez博士，以及教育政策改进中心和斯普林菲尔德公立学校的Matt Coleman博士，为大量拉丁裔学生提供服务。可以使用必要的机构支持，设备和物理资源来开发和传播该计划。艾里斯·埃德（Iris Ed）具有完成第一阶段和第二阶段SBIR项目的历史，并以成功将培训干预措施商业化的承诺而自豪。