SBIR Phase II: A Group Video Game Challenge for Integrated Applied Science Learning

SBIR 第二阶段：综合应用科学学习的团体视频游戏挑战

• 批准号: 1853068
• 负责人: Lindsey Tropf
• 金额: $ 74.67万
• 依托单位: Immersed Games, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1853068&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Group; Video

This SBIR Phase II Project will produce a cooperative applied video game challenge where students work together within an active, simulated environment to collect and analyze data, construct explanations, then test and iterate solutions to a problem. Only 22% of the United States? graduating high school seniors are proficient in science. This is important due to the estimated 2.4 million unfilled jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in the United States, to provide higher-paying STEM jobs to citizens, and promote a scientifically literate citizenry. Recent research supports new approaches for how to improve this scientific literacy, and states across the country are adopting new science standards to support this effort. The outcome of this project will support development of students' scientific literacy with a novel approach which utilizes cooperative, interdisciplinary, problem-based learning within a video game. Commercialization of this product will transform the process of inquiry-based learning by putting the tools in the hands of student scientists as they test their own solutions. The project supports the NSF's mission by empowering students to develop strong science and engineering skills, as well as supporting development of 21st century skills such as collaboration and problem solving that are desired by employers. The technology developed by this Phase II project will produce a group problem-solving experience for up to five students to analyze a problem and implement an engineering solution within a live simulated environment, providing educators with a powerful curricula tool to engage their students in the real problem-solving cycles a scientist would engage in, within a feasible setting using the video game. The research goals include creating a flexible content authoring tool that designers and educators can use to generate their own unique scenarios and creating an easy-to-use educator dashboard to accompany it. The content authoring and customization options empower educators to reflect local context, student interest, and student background knowledge, strategies which are essential for educators of diverse populations currently underrepresented within STEM. The technology and its dashboard will also serve as a powerful formative assessment tool, enabling group assessment that is able to parse group and individual participation, and is designed to promote balanced group problem solving. The result of this research will create a uniquely flexible tool that will enable educators to engage learners in deeper, contextual learning, encourage transfer of information, cooperative learning, development of science and engineering skills such as data literacy, and be utilized for assessment of these skills.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个SBIR第二阶段项目将产生一个合作应用视频游戏挑战，学生在一个活跃的模拟环境中一起工作，收集和分析数据，构建解释，然后测试和验证问题的解决方案。只有美国的22%。即将毕业的高中生精通科学。这一点很重要，因为美国科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域估计有240万个空缺职位，为公民提供高薪的STEM工作，并促进公民的科学素养。最近的研究支持如何提高这种科学素养的新方法，全国各州正在采用新的科学标准来支持这一努力。该项目的成果将支持学生的科学素养的发展与一种新的方法，利用合作，跨学科，基于问题的学习中的视频游戏。该产品的商业化将通过将工具交给学生科学家来测试他们自己的解决方案，从而改变基于探究的学习过程。该项目支持NSF的使命，使学生能够发展强大的科学和工程技能，以及支持雇主所需的协作和解决问题等21世纪技能的发展。由这个第二阶段项目开发的技术将产生一个小组解决问题的经验，最多五名学生分析一个问题，并在现场模拟环境中实施工程解决方案，为教育工作者提供一个强大的课程工具，让他们的学生在科学家将从事的真实的解决问题的周期，在一个可行的设置使用视频游戏。研究目标包括创建一个灵活的内容创作工具，设计师和教育工作者可以使用它来生成自己独特的场景，并创建一个易于使用的教育工作者仪表板来陪伴它。内容创作和定制选项使教育工作者能够反映当地环境，学生兴趣和学生背景知识，这些策略对于目前在STEM中代表性不足的不同人群的教育工作者至关重要。该技术及其仪表板还将作为一个强大的形成性评估工具，使小组评估能够分析小组和个人的参与，并旨在促进平衡的小组问题解决。这项研究的结果将创建一个独特的灵活工具，使教育工作者能够让学习者进行更深入的情境学习，鼓励信息转移，合作学习，发展科学和工程技能，如数据素养，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估来支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。