Interactive Program to Teach Bicycle Safety:Grade K-3

尽管自行车碰撞是幼儿死亡和重伤的主要原因之一，但我们的综述显示，目前还没有针对自行车安全技能的基于经验的易于实施的预防计划。这个项目将开发一个互动的多媒体节目来教授自行车安全技能。该项目将开发一个交互式多媒体程序，向K-3年级的儿童教授自行车安全技能，供学校和家庭使用。第一阶段的原型成功地使用了动画和实时视频演示，教孩子们最重要的自行车安全技能之一。这项计划的主要特点是利用互动媒体向个别使用者提供教学讲解，结合教学设计特点，以达到最大限度的学习效果，以及在现实交通情况的视频例子中应用安全技能。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。第二阶段的开发将扩大互动式自行车安全项目，包括一套全面的自行车安全技能（例如，在街道附近安全玩耍、没有十字路口、在社区行走、穿过停车场），涵盖城市、郊区和农村环境。该方案将在随机对照试验中进行评估。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。多媒体提供的个性化，结合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自行车安全的一种简单经济的方式。该产品将吸引家长寻找新的方法来教孩子的安全技能。

Although bicycle collisions are one of the leading causes of death and severe injury in young children, our review shows that there are currently no empirically-based easily implemented prevention programs targeting bicycle safety skills. This project will develop an interactive multimedia program to teach bicycle safety skills. This project will develop an interactive multimedia program to teach bicycle safety skills to children in grades K-3, for use in both school and home settings. The Phase I prototype successfully used animated and live-video presentation to teach children one of the most important bicycle safety skills crossing the roadway. 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. Phase II development will expand the interactive bicycle safety program to include a comprehensive set of bicycle safety skills (e.g., playing safely near streets, crossing with no intersections, walking in a neighborhood, crossing parking lots) across urban, suburban, and rural environments. The program will be evaluated in a randomized control trial. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: 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 bicycle safety. This product will be attractive to parents seeking new ways to teach children safety skills.