Preventing Drug Use: Interactive Program to Improve Academic Skills

预防吸毒：提高学术技能的互动计划

• 批准号: 7802476
• 负责人: Catrin Rode
• 金额: $ 28.68万
• 依托单位: OREGON CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7802476
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Adopted; Age; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Attitude; Behavioral; CD-ROM; Characteristics; Code; Cognitive Science; Competence; Computers; Drops; Drug usage; Educational process of instructing; Emotional disorder; Ensure; Environment; Failure; Flowcharts; Focus Groups; Fostering; Goals; Habits; Illicit Drugs; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Learning; Lifestyle-related condition; Measures; Modeling; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Online Systems; Parents; Pattern; Performance; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Population; Preparation; Prevention; Prevention program; Problem behavior; Process; Program Development; Program Effectiveness; Public Health; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research; Retrieval; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; Schools; Students; Substance abuse problem; Techniques; Testing; Time Study; TimeLine; Tobacco use; United States; Writing; Youth; adolescent drug use; age group; anti social; base; cost; design; drug abuse prevention; evidence base; experience; follow up assessment; habit learning; high school; improved; interactive multimedia; long term memory; ninth grade; peer; prevent; programs; prototype; public health relevance; randomized trial; skills; social skills; success; teacher; tool; tool development; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Poor grades and decreased performance on measures of academic achievement predict youth drug use and other problem behaviors. However, programs that foster academic competence can be an important component in comprehensive and effective drug use prevention efforts. This project will produce an interactive multimedia (IMM) program (Web-based and CD-ROM) designed to teach at-risk sixth through ninth grade students evidence-based learning strategies that promote academic success in these critical years. In addition, an interactive learning tool will be produced that will help students integrate these strategies into their daily routine of homework, studying, and test preparation. The learning strategies will be taught in four interactive tutorial modules. The modules will convey the concepts of: (a) a plasticity-oriented mindset toward learning, (b) retrieval practice as a learning technique, (c) deep processing to promote encoding in long term memory, and (d) temporally distributed study time to enhance retention of knowledge. A DVD program on these four tutorials will also be produced to ensure availability of this content to those students who do not have computer/Internet access. The program further provides a learning tool to enter and study personalized material that integrates these principles. In addition, the comprehensive program will include supplementary program components for teachers and parents. The goal of this project is to enable low performing students to improve academically by adopting efficient study strategies that promote learning and retention of course material. This, in turn, will serve as a protective factor with respect to drug use and other problem behavior. For Phase I of the project, the instructional units of two tutorial modules (retrieval practice and deep processing) and a learning tool with the respective features will be designed, built, and evaluated in a randomized trial with a sample of 80 students in grades 8 and 9, who are at-risk for academic failure. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project has the potential to support at risk youth by teaching evidence-based learning strategies that promote academic success which is known to be an important protective factor for substance abuse and other problem behavior.

描述（由申请人提供）：成绩差和学业成绩下降的措施预测青少年吸毒和其他问题行为。然而，培养学术能力的计划可以成为全面有效预防吸毒工作的重要组成部分。该项目将制作一个交互式多媒体（IMM）程序（基于Web和CD-ROM），旨在教授处于危险中的六年级至九年级学生以证据为基础的学习策略，以促进这些关键年份的学业成功。此外，还将制作一个互动学习工具，帮助学生将这些策略融入日常作业、学习和考试准备中。学习策略将在四个互动教程模块中教授。这些模块将传达以下概念：（a）以可塑性为导向的学习心态，（B）作为学习技术的检索实践，（c）促进长期记忆编码的深度处理，以及（d）时间分布的学习时间，以提高知识的保留。还将制作关于这四个教程的DVD节目，以确保没有计算机/互联网接入的学生能够获得这些内容。该计划还提供了一个学习工具，输入和学习个性化的材料，集成了这些原则。此外，综合方案将包括教师和家长的补充方案组成部分。这个项目的目标是使低表现的学生通过采取有效的学习策略，促进学习和保留课程材料，以提高学术。反过来，这将成为吸毒和其他问题行为的保护因素。对于该项目的第一阶段，两个教程模块（检索实践和深加工）的教学单元和具有各自功能的学习工具将在随机试验中设计，构建和评估，样本为80名8年级和9年级的学生，他们有学习失败的风险。 公共卫生关系：该项目有可能通过教授促进学术成功的循证学习策略来支持风险青年，这是已知的药物滥用和其他问题行为的重要保护因素。