ESCALA (Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career)

ESCALA（Escuela y Carrera Latina/拉丁裔学校和职业）

• 批准号: 9133838
• 负责人: CHARLES R MARTINEZ
• 金额: $ 22.48万
• 依托单位: IRIS MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-13 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9133838
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will develop ESCALA (Escuela y Carrera Latina/Latino School and Career), a mobile web app designed to increase the college and lowest educational attainment in the United States. Because educational attainment is a major social determinant of health, it is not surprising that Latinos also experience poor health outcomes compared to whites, especially in the areas of obesity, depression, diabetes, and teen pregnancy. Although Latino parents recognize education as vital to their children's future, Latino adolescents perceive postsecondary education as largely unattainable due to a lack of viable role models for students, parents' unfamiliarity with college preparation processes, limited English skills, cultural differences between students and teachers, and having to financially support their family, especially in the case of Latina teenage mothers. In response to these identified barriers, ESCALA proposes to impact Latino students' college and career preparedness by intervening with students, parents, and school staff. The ESCALA app will include (a) dual language (Spanish/English), culturally relevant training videos that clarify the college prep process, (b) action plans for accomplishing concrete goals, and (c) decision‐making tools with which to facilitate informed choices about students' post‐secondary education aims. To ensure that Latino families have ready access to these materials, we will make the intervention available through mobile (i.e., smartphone) technology, which has rapidly established itself as an important communication tool among Latinos. Phase I will focus on development of a scaled‐down prototype of ESCALA that can be "scaled out" in Phase II. Development will occur with focus groups, consultant input, and usability testing. We will conduct an initial evaluation with a sample of 40 Latino students and their parents to determine the social validity, perceived efficacy, behavioral intention to use the learned strategies, and satisfaction with the program's tone and content. In Phase II, we will complete the parent and student components of ESCALA and add the module for school personnel. We will then evaluate the entire program's efficacy in a large randomized controlled trial. The project's Principal Investigators and development and research personnel are fluent Spanish speakers with familial ties to Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean cultures. Project team members have years of experience in translational research involving media and Internet technologies. The project benefits from partnership with Dr. Charles Martinez from the Center for Equity Promotion at the University of Oregon, and Dr. Matt Coleman from the Educational Policy Improvement Center and Springfield Public Schools, serving a large Latino student population. The necessary institutional support, equipment and physical resources are available to develop and disseminate the program. IRIS Ed has a history of completing Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects, and prides itself on its commitment to successfully commercializing training interventions.

 描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的项目将开发Escala(Escuela y Carrera拉丁裔学校和职业)，这是一款旨在提高美国大学和最低教育程度的移动网络应用程序。因为受教育程度是一个主要的社会因素 作为健康的决定因素，拉美裔人的健康状况也比白人差，这并不奇怪，特别是在肥胖、抑郁症、糖尿病和青少年怀孕方面。尽管拉美裔父母认识到教育对孩子的未来至关重要，但拉美裔青少年认为中学后教育在很大程度上是无法实现的，因为学生缺乏可行的榜样，父母不熟悉大学准备过程，英语技能有限，学生和教师之间的文化差异，以及必须在经济上支持他们的家庭，特别是对拉丁裔十几岁的母亲来说。为了应对这些已确定的障碍，Escala建议通过干预学生、家长和学校工作人员来影响拉美裔学生的大学和职业准备。Escala应用程序将包括(A)双语(西班牙语/英语)，阐明大学准备过程的与文化相关的培训视频，(B)实现具体目标的行动计划，以及(C)有助于就学生的高等教育目标做出明智选择的决策工具。为了确保拉美裔家庭随时可以获得这些材料，我们将通过移动(即智能手机)技术进行干预，这一技术已迅速成为拉美裔之间的重要沟通工具。第一阶段将专注于Escala缩小原型的开发，该原型可以在第二阶段“横向扩展”。开发将通过焦点小组、顾问意见和可用性测试进行。我们将对40名拉丁裔学生及其家长进行初步评估，以确定他们的社会有效性、感知效能、使用所学策略的行为意图以及对项目基调和内容的满意度。在第二阶段，我们将完成Escala的家长和学生组件，并为学校人员添加模块。然后，我们将在一项大型随机对照试验中评估整个计划的有效性。 该项目的首席调查人员和开发和研究人员说一口流利的西班牙语，与墨西哥、中美洲和加勒比海文化有家族关系。项目团队成员在涉及媒体和互联网技术的翻译研究方面拥有多年经验。该项目得益于与俄勒冈大学公平促进中心的查尔斯·马丁内斯博士以及教育政策改进中心和斯普林菲尔德公立学校的马特·科尔曼博士的合作，为大量拉美裔学生提供服务。有必要的机构支持、设备和物质资源来制定和传播该方案。Iris Ed有完成第一阶段和第二阶段SBIR项目的历史，并以其成功将培训干预措施商业化的承诺而自豪。