SBIR Phase II: Computer-based co-reading for students with reading disabilities

SBIR 第二阶段：为有阅读障碍的学生提供基于计算机的共同阅读

• 批准号: 2321439
• 负责人: Luke Voelk
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: OBJECTIVE ED, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321439&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Computer; based

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II will produce a system that students will use at home or at school to improve their oral reading. The product will help thousands of public-school districts that are facing a severe shortage of teachers who provide Special Education services to almost 14 million students with dyslexia or other reading disabilities. The project could make teachers more effective in several ways: (1) students will practice independently, and receive appropriate feedback from the computer, customized by the teacher for the individual needs of the student, (2) teachers will be freed up to concentrate on teaching new concepts or to provide individualized attention to resolve specific problems, and (3) teachers will have digital data to track student progress, a mandated requirement of the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) act.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will produce a system that students will use at home or at school to improve their oral reading. This system will use a cloud-based infrastructure and end-user application to perform computer-based co-reading with the student that will (1) validate the student’s reading accuracy and offer remediations when the student makes a mistake, (2) allow the student’s specialized teacher to customize the reading experience and the remediations, and to monitor the student’s progress, (3) use engaging book content, (5) capture audio of the student’s oral reading, and (6) provide to the teacher with the captured audio, the corresponding text of that audio using Natural Language Processing, and the student’s mistakes. This system will be evaluated in public schools with sufficient numbers of students to apply to the Institute of Education Sciences for What Works Clearinghouse certification.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.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段将产生一个系统，学生将在家里或学校使用，以提高他们的口语阅读。 该产品将帮助数以千计的公立学区，这些学区正面临着教师严重短缺的问题，这些教师为近1400万患有阅读障碍或其他阅读障碍的学生提供特殊教育服务。该项目可以在几个方面提高教师的工作效率：（1）学生将独立练习，并从计算机接收适当的反馈，由教师根据学生的个人需求定制，（2）教师将被解放出来，专注于教授新概念或提供个性化的注意力来解决特定问题，以及（3）教师将拥有数字数据来跟踪学生的进步，这是联邦残疾人教育法案（IDEA）的强制要求。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将产生一个系统，学生将在家里或学校使用，以提高他们的口语阅读。该系统将使用基于云的基础设施和终端用户应用程序来与学生执行基于计算机的共同阅读，这将（1）验证学生的阅读准确性，并在学生犯错误时提供补救，（2）允许学生的专业教师定制阅读体验和补救，并监控学生的进度，（3）使用引人入胜的书籍内容，（5）捕获学生的口语阅读的音频，以及（6）使用自然语言处理将所捕获的音频、该音频的对应文本以及学生的错误提供给教师。该系统将在公立学校进行评估，这些学校有足够数量的学生向教育科学研究所申请What Works Clearinghouse认证。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和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。