DEVELOPMENT OF HYPERMEDIA FOR SMOKING PREVENTION

该项目的长期目标是减少青少年吸烟， 开发交互式多媒体，这是一种有希望的干预措施 对于那些被认为“难以接触”的学生， 传统的课堂教学方法， 青少年吸烟者第一期计划的具体目标是： 开发关于烟草的交互式多媒体模块原型 评估原型的有用性和有效性， 特别是它根据反馈接触“高风险”学生的能力， 从初中和高中教育工作者和学生;并检查 扩大第二阶段开发原型的可行性。的 原型将包括关于高优先级主题的超媒体栈， 通过审查有效的烟草预防课程确定。 它 将在三个初中和/或高中教室进行评估， 观察教师的演讲和学生的焦点小组。 的 产品是技术创新，因为它使用了一个新的，计算机- 基于学习策略，以扩大行之有效的课程的有效性。 这是商业上适用的，因为学校正在迅速扩大他们的 使用交互式多媒体的硬件能力，但各种软件 健康教育尚未到位。

The project's long-term goal is to reduce adolescent smoking through development of interactive multimedia, an intervention that holds promise for being effective with those students considered "hard to reach" by traditional classroom methods and who comprise a large percentage of adolescent smokers. The specific aims of the Phase I project are: To develop a prototype of an interactive multimedia module on tobacco prevention; To evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the prototype, particularly its ability to reach "high risk" students, based on feedback from middle and high school educators and students; and to examine the feasibility of expanding the prototype for Phase II development. The prototype will consist of a hypermedia stack on high-priority topic(s), identified through a review of effective tobacco prevention curricula. It will be evaluated in three middle and/or high school classrooms through observations of teacher presentations and focus groups with students. The product is technologically innovative because it uses a new, computer- based learning strategy to extend the effectiveness of proven curricula. It is commercially applicable because schools are rapidly expanding their hardware capacity to use interactive multimedia, but a variety of software in health education is not yet in place.