ISE Pathways: Audemes, Metaphors and Aural Games: A Pathways Project to Make STEM Engaging for the Blind and Visually Impaired

ISE Pathways：Audemes、隐喻和听觉游戏：一个让盲人和视障人士参与 STEM 的途径项目

• 批准号: 1114597
• 负责人: Steven Mannheimer
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114597&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ISE; Pathways; Audemes; Metaphors; Aural

The project, from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), investigates the design, development and dissemination of metaphoric aural sound symbols (audemes), audeme dictionary and riddle audeme games to teach scientific concepts to 75-100 students who are blind and visually impaired (BVI). A number of research questions are included. How do audemes and sequences function as metaphors of STEM concepts? Which audeme game structures and strategies work best to engage BVI students? How do audemes and audeme games impact STEM education? The audeme-to-concept-to-audeme dictionary will build scientific concepts using standards, state-approved science textbooks, teachers and students. They will also examine secondary words that are associated with the science concepts by mining textbooks, identifying tertiary concepts, and establishing a preliminary dictionary of audemes. A team of education, students and professionals who are experts will design the audemes after multiple iterations. A control and experimental group of students will test the audemes through traditional methods and audeme games. Students will complete a pre and post test of scientific concepts with repeated measures ANOVA to examine changes on student scores from the control and experimental groups. This work using audemes to teach scientific concepts will make contributions to BVI, learning disabilities, and general population students. Audemes and audeme games have the potential for broad implementation in both formal and informal settings for computers, mobile, and other networked platforms.

该项目来自印第安纳州普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校（IUPUI），调查了隐喻听觉符号（audemes）、audeme词典和谜语audeme游戏的设计、开发和传播，以向75-100名盲人和视障学生教授科学概念。 其中包括一些研究问题。 audemes和sequences如何作为STEM概念的隐喻？ 哪种audeme游戏结构和策略最适合BVI学生？audemes和audeme游戏如何影响STEM教育？audeme到概念到audeme词典将使用标准，国家批准的科学教科书，教师和学生建立科学概念。他们还将通过挖掘教科书，识别三级概念和建立audemes的初步词典来检查与科学概念相关的二级单词。一个由教育、学生和专家组成的团队将在多次迭代后设计audemes。控制组和实验组的学生将通过传统的方法和audeme游戏来测试audeme。学生将完成科学概念的前后测试，重复测量方差分析，以检查控制组和实验组学生分数的变化。这项工作使用audemes教科学概念将作出贡献，英属维尔京群岛，学习障碍，和一般人群的学生。Audemes和audeme游戏在正式和非正式的计算机、移动的和其他网络平台上都有广泛应用的潜力。