ISE Pathways: Audemes, Metaphors and Aural Games: A Pathways Project to Make STEM Engaging for the Blind and Visually Impaired

该项目由印第安纳大学普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校(IUPUI)发起，旨在研究如何设计、开发和传播隐喻听觉符号、听觉词典和谜语听觉游戏，向75-100名盲人和视障学生传授科学概念。书中包括了一些研究问题。审计和语序如何作为STEM概念的隐喻？哪种审核游戏结构和策略最适合英属维尔京群岛的学生？审计和审计游戏对STEM教育有何影响？这部从审计到概念到审计的词典将使用标准、国家批准的科学教科书、教师和学生来构建科学概念。他们还将通过挖掘教科书，识别第三级概念，并建立初步的审计词典来检查与科学概念相关的二手单词。一个由教育、学生和专业人士组成的专家团队将在多次迭代后设计审计方案。控制组和实验组的学生将通过传统方法和听证游戏对听证进行测试。学生将完成科学概念的前后测试，使用重复测量的方差分析来检查控制组和试验组学生成绩的变化。这项利用听证教授科学概念的工作将对英属维尔京群岛、学习障碍和普通人群的学生做出贡献。Audeme和Audeme游戏有可能在计算机、移动设备和其他联网平台的正式和非正式环境中广泛实施。

The project, from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), investigates the design, development and dissemination of metaphoric aural sound symbols (audemes), audeme dictionary and riddle audeme games to teach scientific concepts to 75-100 students who are blind and visually impaired (BVI). A number of research questions are included. How do audemes and sequences function as metaphors of STEM concepts? Which audeme game structures and strategies work best to engage BVI students? How do audemes and audeme games impact STEM education? The audeme-to-concept-to-audeme dictionary will build scientific concepts using standards, state-approved science textbooks, teachers and students. They will also examine secondary words that are associated with the science concepts by mining textbooks, identifying tertiary concepts, and establishing a preliminary dictionary of audemes. A team of education, students and professionals who are experts will design the audemes after multiple iterations. A control and experimental group of students will test the audemes through traditional methods and audeme games. Students will complete a pre and post test of scientific concepts with repeated measures ANOVA to examine changes on student scores from the control and experimental groups. This work using audemes to teach scientific concepts will make contributions to BVI, learning disabilities, and general population students. Audemes and audeme games have the potential for broad implementation in both formal and informal settings for computers, mobile, and other networked platforms.