INTERACTIVE PROGRAM TO TEACH PEDESTRIAN SAFETY-GRADE K-3

虽然行人伤害是幼儿的主要杀手之一，但我们的综述显示，目前没有基于经验的、早期实施的针对幼儿行人安全技能的预防计划。本项目将制作互动多媒体节目，向幼稚园至幼稚园的小朋友传授行人安全技能。该程序将设计用于学校和家庭环境，并将提供CD-ROM和互联网格式。该节目将呈现抽象（即动画）和详细的实际（即视频）情况，以教孩子们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，在社区行走，穿过停车场）。根据社区背景（即城市/郊区或农村）和年级（K-3），为学生用户量身定制演示文稿，从而优化项目效果。这个项目的主要特点是：利用互动媒体向个人用户进行教学演示；结合教学设计特点，已被证明可以实现最大限度的学习，并将安全技能应用于基于视频的真实交通情况示例中。该计划将结合以计算机为基础的评估和补救措施，以确保掌握内容。一项随机临床试验将评估项目的效果。建议的商业应用：多媒体教育软件是一个不断发展的领域，学校和家庭用户组成了一个庞大的客户群。多媒体所提供的个性化，加上优秀的教学设计和根据需要进行的补救，使这个光盘和互联网产品成为学校教授行人安全的一种简单而经济的方式。该产品将吸引家长寻找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.