SBIR Phase II: A secure educational interactive software platform for improving high school student achievement

该SBIR第二阶段项目的重点是通过开发一个创新的视频软件平台，利用教育环境中基于视频的主动学习的优势，显著提高学生在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）概念方面的成绩。STEM领域被广泛认为对一个国家的经济至关重要，但学生在学校获得的STEM知识和技能与他们在日益全球化、依赖技术的工作场所取得成功所需的知识和技能之间存在脱节。第二阶段的研究将能够开发和测试视频和同行评议工具，该工具将成功科学家的核心调查步骤与最先进的视频专有技术相结合，并允许位于全国任何地方的学生和教师之间的合作。这项技术的商业化将为学区提供所需的教育工具，帮助教师指导和评估STEM活动，并支持学生学习批判性思维技能和掌握STEM概念，这是科学和工程事业成功的基础。通过这项技术鼓励学生STEM能力的增长将鼓励未来科学创新的增长，支持国内就业和为我国经济繁荣奠定坚实的财税基础。这个SBIR项目的技术创新是一个教育视频软件平台，旨在作为STEM关键科学探究的框架，结合专有源代码，学生同行评审，教师评估，分析，可搜索的数据库和安全的班级视频共享。每个项目都要求学生在反映专业科学家最佳实践的框架内工作：学生组织假设，证据和分析方面的概念，并传达他们的循证项目进行同行评审。该安全视频软件平台旨在用于高中，并集成到教师现有的学习管理系统（LMS）中，以评估学生的进步。研究的目标和范围是开发支持教育框架的交互式视频播放器源代码，然后利用标准化成绩测试展示该平台对学生成绩的影响。 这些目标将通过几项侧重于软件开发的任务来实现，以纳入安全帐户创建，同行评审交互性和LMS集成，然后演示平台的类到类连接。试点研究将评估软件平台？的功能，并验证其潜力，以显着提高高中学生的批判性思维和科学探究的标准化考试的措施。

This SBIR Phase II project is focused on the challenge of significantly improving student achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) concepts through the development of an innovative video software platform that leverages the benefits of video-based active learning in the educational environment. STEM fields are widely regarded as vital to a nation's economy, but a disconnect exists between the STEM knowledge and skills that students acquire in schools and those that they need to succeed in an increasingly global, technology-dependent workplace. Phase II research will enable development and testing of a video and peer review tool that will merge the core inquiry steps of successful scientists with state-of-the-art video proprietary technology, and allow collaboration between students and teachers located anywhere in the country. Commercialization of this technology will provide school districts with a needed educational tool to help teachers direct and assess STEM activities, and support students as they learn critical thinking skills and master STEM concepts, a mastery fundamental to successful careers in science and engineering. Encouraging the growth of students' STEM competency through this technology will encourage the growth of scientific innovations of the future, supporting domestic jobs and a strong financial tax foundation for our country's economic prosperity. The technical innovation in this SBIR project is an educational video software platform designed as a framework for STEM critical science inquiry, incorporating proprietary source code, student peer review, teacher assessment, analytics, a searchable database, and secure class-to-class video sharing. Each project requires that students work within a framework mirroring the best practices of professional scientists: Students organize concepts in terms of hypotheses, evidence, and analysis, and communicate their evidence-based projects to be peer reviewed. The secure video software platform is designed to be used within high schools and integrated into teachers' existing Learning Management Systems (LMS) to assess student progress. The goals and scope of the research are to develop the interactive video player source code that supports the educational framework and then demonstrate the results of this platform on student achievement utilizing a standardized achievement test. These goals will be accomplished through several tasks focused on software development to incorporate secure account creation, peer-review interactivity, and LMS integration, followed by demonstration of class-to-class connectivity of the platform. A pilot study will assess the software platform?s functionality and validate its potential to significantly increase high school student critical thinking and scientific inquiry measures on a standardized test.