MP/PPD: Using Adaptive Computer Technology in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering

9452860吉尔伯特该项目的主要重点是传播最好的和最新的信息，使科学，工程和数学（SEM）领域的中学后教育更容易获得SEM教师和残疾学生。 残疾学生可能难以独立完成某些SEM课程任务，（例如，阅读、写或 操作实验室仪器）。 现代计算机技术可以在许多情况下提供所需的援助。 学生和教师需要了解这项技术的存在和潜力。 美国高等教育协会和平等获得软件和信息项目建议开展一个信息传播项目，以增加这些群体的知识基础，从而增加残疾学生对SEM研究的包容和参与。 这些学生在SEM研究中经常面临障碍，这些障碍是由无法进入的建筑物、计算机、实验室、信息资源以及管理人员和教师对他们在SEM研究中的能力和潜力的负面态度造成的。 EASI项目在过去六年中一直致力于帮助高等教育机构克服残疾学生、教师和工作人员存在的身体和态度障碍。 不幸的是，尽管最近的报告和工作队，已经做了足够的工作来分发越来越多的研究和信息，关于自适应计算机技术如何可以帮助残疾学生谁想要学习和工作在SEM领域。 该项目将收集关于自适应技术在SEM中的应用的现有最佳信息，并通过四种传播方式将其分发给广泛分散的教育受众：电子、简要印刷出版物、视频和现场演示。 这些努力的目标是促进创新干预战略的快速传播，这将增加残疾学生在SEM教育和职业轨道上的参与。

9452860 Gilbert The primary focus of this project is dissemination of the best and most current information on making post-secondary education in the fields of science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) more accessible to SEM faculty and to students with disabilities. Students with disabilities may have difficulty completing certain SEM course-work tasks independently, (e.g., reading, writing or manipulating laboratory instruments). Modern computer-based technology can provide the needed assistance in many of these situations. Students and faculty need to learn about the existence and potential of this technology. The American Association for Higher Education and Project EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) propose to conduct an information dissemination project to increase the knowledge-base of these groups thereby increasing inclusion and participation of students with disabilities in SEM studies. These students often face obstacles to SEM studies caused by inaccessible buildings, computers, laboratmries, information resources, and negative attitudes of administrators and faculty regarding their abilities and potential in SEM studies. Project EASI has spent the last six years working to help institutions of higher learning overcome physical and attitudinal barriers that exist for students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. Unfortunately, despite recent reports and task forces, insufficient work has been done to distribute the growing amount of research and information about how adaptive computer technology can help students with disabilities who want to study and work in the fields of SEM. This project will take the best available information about the application of adaptive technology in SEM and distribute it to a widely decentralized education audience through four kinds of dissemination: electronic, brief print publications, videos, and live presentations. The goal of these efforts is to promote the rapid dissemination of innovat ive intervention strategies that will increase the participation of students with disabilities in SEM educational and career tracks.***