An Audio-Tactile Curriculum to Support Visually Impaired Statistics Students.

支持视障统计学学生的音频触觉课程。

• 批准号: 0341529
• 负责人: Karen Gourgey
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY Baruch College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0341529&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Audio; Tactile; Curriculum; Support; Visually

Mathematics (12). The ability to comprehend and manipulate graphical data is crucial for mastery in STEM disciplines. In statistics, pictorial representations illustrate data patterns in the form of graphs and probability distributions; students need to understand the ways these representations denote statistical concepts and numerical expressions important in the mastery of statistics. For students who are visually impaired, bringing these strands into a cognitive whole presents a significant barrier. Faculty who teach this material to blind students often find themselves at a loss as to how to proceed.This project adapts, tests and disseminates a conceptually rich set of curricular modules for introductory applied statistics, thereby creating a fully interactive accessible workbook useable by students with visual impairments and the faculty who teach them.The approach calls for adapting an existing text for delivery via the Talking Tactile Tablet, a new low-cost computer peripheral that presents tactile and large-print graphics coordinated with audio description. The medium is interactive, and students have random access to text, graphics, and a detailed index. Guidelines are developed to assist faculty at other institutions who want to develop their own accessible materials using the tablet format. The statistics courseware is made commercially available through the completion of the project.

数学（12）.理解和操作图形数据的能力对于掌握STEM学科至关重要。在统计学中，图形表示以图形和概率分布的形式说明数据模式;学生需要了解这些表示表示统计概念和数字表达式的方式，这些表达对掌握统计学很重要。对于视力受损的学生来说，将这些线索纳入认知整体是一个重大障碍。教授盲人学生这些材料的教师常常发现自己不知如何进行。该项目改编、测试和传播了一套概念丰富的应用统计学入门课程模块，从而创建了一个完全交互式的无障碍工作簿，供视障学生和教授他们的教师使用。该方法要求改编现有的文本，通过Talking Tactile Tablet，一种新的低成本计算机外围设备，提供触觉和大印刷图形与音频描述协调。该媒体是互动的，学生可以随机访问文本，图形和详细的索引。指导方针的制定，以协助教师在其他机构谁想要开发自己的无障碍材料使用平板电脑格式。该项目完成后，统计课件将投入商业使用。