ACE (Adolescent Comprehension Evaluation)

I-Corps项目的广泛影响/商业潜力是多方面的。阅读理解是一项基本的生活技能，需要在初中和高中进行评估。如果教师提供了一个快速，简单的过程来评估学生的理解能力，并及时得到关于学生需求的反馈，他们可以更容易地根据学生的需求调整教学，这可能会影响困难学生和普通教育学生的阅读能力。ACE（青少年理解评估）也可以帮助地区提高学生的整体阅读分数，并影响州标准化评估的结果。此外，由于理解能力在许多职业中也是必不可少的，雇主可能正在寻找一种方法来确定应聘者是否能够理解履行职责所必需的材料。ACE或许能够提供这样的机会。最后，医学界正在寻找一种方法，以确定患者是否理解提供给他们的有关某些药物或程序的信息。ACE中使用的过程可能适用于这一领域。I-Corps项目目前正在使用一套正在申请专利的多方面程序进行验证。ACE包括60篇六年级到八年级的原创文章，每篇文章有10个问题。教师仪表板提供即时数据，可用于灵活分组和区分学生，以提高学生的阅读理解能力。“大声思考”方案验证了每个阅读理解问题的模式干扰。ACE被认为是首次在内部结构验证中使用基于大脑的技术，代表了评估领域的一项创新。多维度验证过程包括使用fNIRS（功能性近红外光谱）技术，该技术允许基于证据的说法，即测试问题是基于文本的，比其他评估受背景知识的影响更小。在学生文化、地理和社会经济多样性影响评估结果的教育环境中，这是一项关键需求。ACE在阅读理解题中使用加权答案，以获得部分学分。这意味着ACE提供了比其他评估更敏感的增长衡量标准。每一个加权答案都对应一个特定的思维错误，这意味着ACE可以为教师提供近乎即时的反馈，可用于指导、干预和学生分组。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is multi-faceted. Reading comprehension is an essential life skill, which needs to be assessed in middle and high school. If teachers are provided a quick, easy process to assess students' comprehension ability and get on-time feedback regarding student areas of need, they can more easily adjust instruction based on student needs which may impact reading abilities of struggling students and general education students. ACE (Adolescent Comprehension Evaluation) may also help districts to improve overall reading scores of students and impact the results of state standardized assessments. In addition, as comprehension is also essential in many careers, employers may be looking for a way to determine if applicants are able to comprehend the necessary material to perform their duties. ACE may be able to provide that opportunity. Lastly, the medical field is searching for a process to determine if patients understand the information presented to them regarding certain medicines or procedures. The process used in ACE may be applicable in this area. This I-Corps project is currently being validated using a patent-pending, multifaceted set of procedures. ACE includes 60 original passages for grades six through eight with 10 questions for each passage. A teacher dashboard provides immediate data that can be used to flexibly group students and differentiate in order to improve students' reading comprehension. Think Aloud protocols validate the patterned distractors for each of the reading comprehension questions. In what is believed to be the first use of brain-based technology in internal structure validation, ACE represents an innovation in the assessment space. The multidimensional validation process includes the use of fNIRS (functional near infrared spectroscopy) technology which allows making an evidence-based claim that the test questions are text-based and less influenced by background knowledge than other assessments. This is a critical need in an educational landscape where student cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity influences the outcomes of assessments. ACE uses weighted answers to its reading comprehension questions, to allow for partial credit. This means that ACE provides a more sensitive measure of growth than other assessments. Each of the weighted answers corresponds to a specific error in thinking, which means ACE gives teachers near instant feedback that can be used for instruction, intervention, and student groupings.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.