Get in the GROOVE!

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基本信息

批准号：
9087345
负责人：
JUDY A. BROWN
金额：
$ 22.48万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-07-01 至 2018-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9087345
关键词：
3-Dimensional Address Adopted Affect American Arts Awareness Behavior Cardiac health Career Choice Child health care Collaborations Communities Community Health Computer software Computers Development Education Education Projects Effectiveness Elements Environment Evaluation Family General Population Goals Habits Haitian Health Health Professional Health Sciences Health education Healthy Eating Heart Individual K-12 science education Knowledge Learning Life Life Style Middle School Student Minority Museums New York Obesity Overweight Parents Physical activity Physiological Physiology Population Heterogeneity Public Health Randomized Controlled Trials Readiness Research Research Personnel Resources STEM career Science Self Efficacy Social Interaction Societies Students System Talents Technology Universities Work Youth base behavior change boys cardiogenesis career college design digital educational atmosphere exhibitions experience girls good diet health disparity health knowledge healthy lifestyle high school informal learning innovation interest junior high school knowledge base next generation nutrition open source physical science programs research and development science education science museum simulation square foot teacher tool virtual virtual reality

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Get in the GROOVE will address health disparities impacting underserved youth, as well as the national need to cultivate diversity in preparing the next generation of health professionals. Given the alarming rate of overweight and obesity among high school minority youth, the project will focus on middle school with the primary aim of reaching middle school girls before unhealthy habits become firmly ingrained. The project brings together the research and informal science education community in an innovative effort to contribute to the knowledge base with regard to the impact of informal learning environments as a delivery system for communicating key health messages to diverse populations, and explore the use of virtual world technology as a vehicle for motivating interest in learning how a healthy diet and physical activity can impact an individual's wellbeing throughout life. The specific objectives are to: 1) to develop science-rich health education resources for middle school students that motivate interest in adopting a healthy lifestyle; 2) to increase middle school students' awareness of and interest in nutrition and physiology related STEM career pathways; 3) increase parental awareness, within the family cultural context, of the importance of good nutrition and physical activity for children's health; 4) to investigate, in a randomized controlled trial, the extent to which a 3-D virtual world environment explored in an informal museum setting produces gains in middle school students' self-efficacy, health knowledge, and readiness for positive behavior change; and 5) to broadly disseminate the evaluated program results and research findings to the global community of health, informal science education and K-12 research communities. The evaluation plan will document the impact of the GROOVE program to engage students in the study of nutrition and physical activity and enhance their conceptual understanding of the importance of nutrition and activity to their overall health. If successful, this approach will advance the field through rigorous evaluation of the use of virtual world simulations as a learning tool, contribute to the research base of the impact and the value of informal education environments to serve underrepresented youth, and could transform science education by simultaneously stimulating interest in science while promoting healthy behavior in youth.

描述（由申请人提供）：Get in the GROOVE 将解决影响服务不足的年轻人的健康差异，以及国家在培养下一代卫生专业人员方面培养多样性的需要。鉴于少数族裔高中生的超重和肥胖率惊人，该项目将重点关注中学，其主要目标是在不健康习惯根深蒂固之前覆盖中学女生。该项目将研究和非正式科学教育界聚集在一起，以创新的方式努力，为关于非正式学习环境作为向不同人群传达关键健康信息的传递系统的影响的知识库做出贡献，并探索虚拟世界的使用技术作为激发学习健康饮食和身体活动如何影响个人一生福祉的兴趣的工具。具体目标是：1）为中学生开发科学丰富的健康教育资源，激发他们采取健康生活方式的兴趣； 2) 提高中学生对营养和生理学相关STEM职业道路的认识和兴趣； 3) 在家庭文化背景下提高父母对良好营养和身体活动对儿童健康重要性的认识； 4) 在一项随机对照试验中调查在非正式博物馆环境中探索的 3D 虚拟世界环境对中学生的自我效能感、健康知识和积极行为改变的准备程度产生的增益程度； 5) 向全球卫生界、非正式科学教育界和 K-12 研究界广泛传播评估后的计划结果和研究成果。评估计划将记录 GROOVE 计划的影响，让学生参与营养和身体活动的研究，并增强他们对营养和活动对其整体健康重要性的概念理解。如果成功，这种方法将通过严格评估虚拟世界模拟作为学习工具的使用来推进该领域的发展，为非正式教育环境的影响和价值的研究基础做出贡献，为代表性不足的青年提供服务，并可以通过以下方式改变科学教育：同时激发青少年对科学的兴趣，同时促进健康的行为。