Attitude Boost: A multimedia curriculum to improve attitudes toward science

态度提升：提高科学态度的多媒体课程

• 批准号: 8098989
• 负责人: KRISTEN D HOLTZ
• 金额: $ 38.06万
• 依托单位: KDH RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8098989
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Age; Aptitude; Attitude; Brain; CD-ROM; Child; Commit; Communication Research; Communities; Curriculum Management System; Data; Decision Making; Development; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Economics; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Ensure; Evaluation; Foundations; Funding; Gender; General Population; Generations; Goals; Happiness; Health; Individual; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Knowledge; Letters; Link; Literature; Marketing; Measures; Medical; Methods; Mind; Mission; Multimedia; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Outcome; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Prevention; Primary Schools; Procedures; Process; Protocols documentation; Public Domains; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Schedule; Schools; Science; Scientist; Secondary Schools; Series; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Welfare; Societies; Students; Target Populations; Testing; Time; United States; Work; addiction; age group; base; career; commercialization; cost; design; drug abuse education; drug of abuse; elementary school; experience; falls; improved; innovation; literacy; literate; meetings; middle school; product development; programs; prototype; racial and ethnic; research and development; response; science education; social; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this Fast Track SBIR is to develop and evaluate a series of curriculum supplements, entitled Attitude Boost, which aims to improve students' positive attitudes toward science, with the goal, in turn, of improving scientific literacy and academic performance on science subjects, particularly those related to drug abuse education and prevention. Attitude Boost will be theoretically-based, standards-driven multimedia product that will include a student CD-ROM with at least five interactive self-paced modules on topics like the scientific method and its applicability to daily tasks and the work of scientists and its value to society. A teacher implementation guide will provide background information on the impact of attitudes on science performance and later outcomes, methods for implementing the curriculum supplement in the classroom, links between Attitude Boost and other science curricula, and approaches for assessing student outcomes. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has invested in the development of many public domain curricula on the science of drug abuse, particularly the Brain Power! series, in large measure because promoting science literacy is a core component of its mission. Indeed, individual science literacy is linked with healthy decision making about drug use and other health topics. It is also essential that the general public understands the effects of drugs on the brain and body in order to effectively address issues of abuse, addiction, and treatment in communities. Effective science education also promotes a new generation of productive researchers in science fields and U.S. competitiveness in research and development. Attitudes toward science have been found to be a strong predictor of achievement, but attitudes generally decline during late elementary school. Attitude Boost will link with NIDA's other science education curricula to improve student performance on these specifically, as well as science writ large. In Phase I, KDHRC will develop a prototype product and evaluate its effectiveness in changing student knowledge and improving attitudes. In Phase II, KDHRC will complete product development and conduct a controlled quasi-experimental evaluation to explore these research questions: 1) To what extent does completion of the Attitude Boost CD-ROM prior to participating in a science education curriculum result in better performance on that curriculum? 2) To what extent are there age, gender, ethnic/racial or other differences in responses to the Attitude Boost materials? KDHRC proposes a Fast Track because our project partners, advisory board, commercialization partners, and project procedures are in place, and there is an unmet need in the market for this product. Following product completion and evaluation, the Attitude Boost curriculum supplements will be marketed to schools nationwide. The results of the evaluation will be disseminated through the academic literature and practitioner-oriented briefs to add to knowledge about optimization of science attitudes and performance. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE It is critically important for people to be scientifically literate in order to make fully informed medical, political, economic, and social decisions concerning individual and societal welfare. Attitudes toward science generally begin to decline in late elementary school, and science performance and aptitude suffers in turn. Therefore, the objective of the Attitude Boost project is to develop easy-to-implement curriculum supplements to improve student attitudes toward science, thereby increasing scientific literacy.

描述（由申请人提供）：该快速通道SBIR的目的是开发和评估一系列课程补充，名为“态度提升”，旨在提高学生对科学的积极态度，进而提高科学学科的科学素养和学业成绩，特别是与药物滥用教育和预防有关的科学。Attitude Boost将是以理论为基础、以标准为导向的多媒体产品，其中将包括一个学生光盘，其中至少有五个互动自定进度的模块，主题包括科学方法及其对日常任务的适用性、科学家的工作及其对社会的价值。教师实施指南将提供背景资料，说明态度对科学成绩和后来的成果的影响，在课堂上实施课程补充的方法，提高态度与其他科学课程之间的联系，以及评估学生成果的方法。国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）投资开发了许多关于药物滥用科学的公共领域课程，特别是脑力！这在很大程度上是因为促进科学素养是其使命的核心组成部分。事实上，个人的科学素养与有关药物使用和其他健康主题的健康决策有关。公众了解药物对大脑和身体的影响也至关重要，以便有效地解决社区中的滥用，成瘾和治疗问题。有效的科学教育还能促进科学领域新一代富有成效的研究人员，提高美国在研究和开发方面的竞争力。对科学的态度被发现是一个很强的预测成就，但态度一般在小学后期下降。态度提升将与NIDA的其他科学教育课程，以提高学生在这些具体的表现，以及科学书面大。在第一阶段，KDHRC将开发原型产品，并评估其在改变学生知识和改善态度方面的有效性。在第二阶段，KDHRC将完成产品开发，并进行对照准实验评估，以探讨这些研究问题：1）在何种程度上完成的态度提高光盘之前，参加科学教育课程的结果更好的表现在该课程？2)在多大程度上有年龄，性别，民族/种族或其他差异的反应态度提高材料？KDHRC提出了一个快速通道，因为我们的项目合作伙伴，顾问委员会，商业化合作伙伴和项目程序已经到位，并且市场上对该产品的需求尚未得到满足。在产品完成和评估之后，态度提升课程补充材料将在全国各地的学校销售。评价结果将通过学术文献和面向专家的简报传播，以增加关于优化科学态度和绩效的知识。公众健康的相关性对于人们来说，科学素养是至关重要的，以便在充分知情的情况下做出有关个人和社会福利的医疗，政治，经济和社会决策。对科学的态度一般在小学后期开始下降，科学表现和能力反过来受到影响。因此，态度提升项目的目标是开发易于实施的课程补充，以改善学生对科学的态度，从而提高科学素养。