SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Building PreK-12 School Resilience in the Face of COVID-19

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：构建 PreK-12 学校面对 COVID-19 的复原力

• 批准号: 2043877
• 负责人: Changbum Ahn
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2043877&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Building

PreK-12 schools reopen for in-person instruction with a set of mitigation strategies that limits transmission of the virus, including cohorting with the same small group of students, spacing between seats, staggered scheduling, creating one way routes in hallways, and closure of communal use shared spaces. However, each district and school, which has unique qualities and varying public health conditions in communities, is left on its own regarding how to implement recommended measures considering its classroom/campus settings, student population, and public health conditions in communities. The vision of this project is thus to build PreK-12 schools’ resilience in the face of Covid-19, by empowering school districts to predict, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of their mitigation strategies to limit transmission. In particular, this project focuses on physical distancing within the educational environment (e.g., school buildings, transportation buses) as a key strategy for limiting transmission, and its long term goal is to create and validate technological and social tools that help districts and schools to predict, monitor, and enhance physical distancing behaviors of students within the education environment, in collaboration with College Station Independent School District (CSISD) in Texas. In order to achieve its long term goal, this planning grant will develop the necessary research personnel, research infrastructure, and foundational work, by (1) creating a pilot agent-based simulation model to predict students’ physical distancing behaviors; (2) conducting a survey to examine factors influencing students’ preventive behaviors; and (3) coordinating community meetings and focus interviews to build an understanding of communities’ needs in designing enabling technologies/tools. Ultimately, the successful completion of this project will immediately benefit educational administrators and facility managers in designing optimal operation measures considering their educational facilities and student populations. In addition, the project outcomes will provide guidance in designing and implementing behavioral interventions to enhance students’ awareness and compliance to physical distancing practices. This will be critical in reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission and ensuring continuous and safe school operations.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.

学前12年级的学校重新开学接受面对面指导，采取了一套限制病毒传播的缓解策略，包括与相同的一小群学生分组，座位间距，交错排课，在走廊创建单行道，以及关闭公共使用的共享空间。然而，每个地区和学校都有独特的质量和不同的社区公共卫生条件，考虑到其教室/校园环境、学生人数和社区公共卫生条件，如何实施建议的措施由每个地区和学校自行决定。因此，该项目的愿景是通过授权学区预测、监测和评估其缓解战略的有效性来培养幼儿园至12年级学校面对新冠肺炎的应变能力，以限制传播。特别是，该项目侧重于将教育环境(如校舍、交通巴士)中的物理距离作为限制传播的关键战略，其长期目标是创建和验证技术和社交工具，帮助地区和学校与得克萨斯州大学站独立学区(CSISD)合作，预测、监控和增强学生在教育环境中的物理距离行为。为了实现其长期目标，该计划拨款将发展必要的研究人员、研究基础设施和基础工作，方法是(1)创建一个基于代理的模拟模型来预测学生的物理距离行为；(2)进行调查以检查影响学生预防行为的因素；以及(3)协调社区会议和重点访谈，以了解社区在设计使能技术/工具方面的需求。最终，该项目的成功完成将立即使教育管理人员和设施管理人员在考虑其教育设施和学生人数的情况下设计最佳运营措施。此外，项目成果将为设计和实施行为干预措施提供指导，以提高学生对物理距离练习的认识和遵从性。这将是降低新冠肺炎传播风险和确保学校持续安全运营的关键。这一奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。