Eliminating Communication and Technological Barriers to STEM Education

消除 STEM 教育的沟通和技术障碍

• 批准号: 0307602
• 负责人: Marc Marschark
• 金额: $ 88.39万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0307602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Eliminating; Communication; Technological; Barriers; STEM

The researchers propose to study the impact that new display technologies in classroom have on hearing-impaired students. They will conduct a series of experiments using videotape and eye-tracking technology that will investigate the extent to which visual technologies may place additional cognitive burdens on such students in STEM classrooms. They draw on the literatures on divided attention, interference, and the effects that utilizing competing modalities has for integrating information. The investigators will be able to track individual students' attention and document, for example, precisely what information they receive when gazing at the interpreter, when they look away to view the visual display, and what information they receive from it. The researchers can compare these informational transcripts against those received by other students (hearing and hearing-impaired) as well as against the complete record of communication. They will be able to compare the efficacy with which different students deal with these competing input-streams. They hope to identify strategies by which learners and educators can enhance learning through the coordination of visual technologies and interpreting.

研究人员建议研究教室中新的显示技术对听障学生的影响。他们将使用录像带和眼动追踪技术进行一系列实验，调查视觉技术在多大程度上可能给STEM教室的学生带来额外的认知负担。他们借鉴了关于分散注意力、干扰以及利用竞争模式对整合信息的影响的文献。调查人员将能够跟踪单个学生的注意力并记录，例如，他们在凝视口译员时接收到的准确信息、他们何时移开目光观看视觉显示以及他们从中接收到的信息。研究人员可以将这些信息记录与其他学生（听力和听力受损）收到的信息进行比较，以及与完整的沟通记录进行比较。他们将能够比较不同学生处理这些竞争性输入流的效率。他们希望确定学习者和教育者可以通过视觉技术和口译的协调来加强学习的策略。