INTERACTIVE PROGRAM TO TEACH PEDESTRIAN SAFETY-GRADE K-3

虽然行人受伤是幼儿的主要杀手之一，但我们的审查表明，目前还没有针对幼儿的行人安全技能的以伤害为基础的早期实施预防计划。 该项目将开发一个互动的多媒体程序，教行人安全技能的儿童在K-3年级。 该方案将设计用于学校和家庭环境，并将以光盘和互联网的形式提供。 该程序将呈现抽象的（即，动画的）和详细的实际（即，视频）的情况，以教导儿童一套全面的行人安全技能（例如，过马路、在街道附近安全玩耍、在附近散步、穿过停车场）。 计划的有效性将通过根据社区环境（即，城市/郊区或农村）和等级（K-3）。 该项目的关键特点是：利用互动媒体的教学演示给个人用户;教学设计的特点，已被证明，以实现最大的学习纳入：和应用安全技能的视频为基础的例子真实的生活交通情况。 该计划将结合基于计算机的评估与补救，以确保内容掌握。 一项随机临床试验将评估该计划的有效性。拟定商业应用：多媒体教育软件是一个不断发展的领域，学校和家庭用户都构成了一个庞大的客户群。 多媒体提供的个性化，结合上级教学设计和补救措施，使这个光盘和互联网产品成为学校教授行人安全的一个简单的成本效益方式。 该产品将吸引家长寻求新的方法来教孩子的安全技能。

Although pedestrian injuries are one of the leading killers of young children, our review shows that there are currently no empirically-based, early implemented prevention program targeting pedestrian safety skills for young children. This project will develop an interactive multimedia program to teach pedestrian safety skills to children in grade K-3. The program will be designed for use in school and home settings and will be available in both CD-ROM and Internet formats. The program will present both abstracted (i.e., animated) and detailed actual (i.e., video) situations to teach children a comprehensive set of pedestrian safety skills (e.g., crossing streets, playing safely near streets, walking in neighborhood, crossing parking lots). Program effectiveness will be optimized by tailoring the presentation to the student-user based on community context (i.e., urban/suburban or rural) and grade (K-3). The critical features of this project are: the utilization of interactive media for the instructional presentation to the individual user; the incorporation of instructional design features that have been shown to achieve maximum learning: and the application of safety skills in video-based examples of real life traffic situations. The program will incorporate computer-based assessment with remediation to ensure content mastery. A randomized clinical trial will evaluate program efficacy. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Multimedia educational software is a growing field, with both schools and home users comprising a large customer base. The individualization afforded by multimedia, combined with superior instructional design and remediation as needed, make this CD-ROM and internet product a simple cost-effective way for schools to teach pedestrian safety. This product will be attractive to parents seeking new ways to teach children safety skills.