Interactive Program to Teach Bicycle Safety:Grade K-3

虽然自行车碰撞是导致幼儿死亡和严重受伤的主要原因之一，但我们的审查表明，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。该项目将开发一个交互式多媒体程序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，用于学校和家庭环境。第一阶段的原型成功地使用了动画和现场视频演示来教孩子们最重要的横穿马路的自行车安全技能之一。该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，纳入已证明可实现最大学习的教学设计功能，并在基于视频的真实交通情况示例中应用安全技能。该计划将基于计算机的评估与补救相结合，以确保对内容的掌握。第二阶段开发将扩展交互式自行车安全计划，以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，在没有十字路口的情况下横穿马路，在社区内行走，穿过停车场)，跨越城市、郊区和农村环境。该计划将在随机对照试验中进行评估。拟议的商业应用：多媒体教育软件是一个不断增长的领域，学校和家庭用户都构成了一个巨大的客户基础。多媒体提供的个性化，再加上卓越的教学设计和必要的补救措施，使这款光盘和互联网产品成为学校教授自行车安全的一种简单、经济高效的方式。这款产品将吸引寻求新方法来教孩子安全技能的父母。

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.