Substance Abuse Prevention Media Literacy Curriculum

描述(由申请者提供)：为了回应NIDA发表的呼吁创新旨在预防药物滥用的教育计划的研究主题，拟议的项目将开发并经验性测试用于三至五年级儿童的媒体识字酒精和烟草使用预防课程。课程将包括目标、教案脚本和活动、与相关学科领域的核心联系、作业建议、资源和基于技能的评估工具。课程的设计将准备好在一系列教育环境中使用，包括小学、家庭学校、课外方案、基于信仰的方案和基于社区的方案(例如，男孩和女孩俱乐部)。在第一阶段，制定并概述了课程的总体结构和目标。前三节课是由一位经验丰富的老师在焦点小组环境中向3至5年级的孩子们讲授的。此外，还进行了焦点小组，并与课程开发者、3-5年级教师和健康教育工作者进行了磋商，以就课程的形式、目标和内容提供反馈。来自教育工作者和儿童的消费者满意度评分都非常积极，这表明课程的原型很有前途，并为进一步开发和完成做好了准备。本申请提出了三个主要目标，包括(1)完成课程和评估材料，(2)在两个青年群体中对课程和评估方案进行试点测试，以及(3)对干预和等待名单控制组的教育人员进行随机分配的实验，以评估课程在改变有关使用烟草和酒精产品的知识、态度和行为以及提高与媒体素养相关的批判性思维技能方面的有效性。这项研究的潜在商业应用包括创建一个易于使用的、有吸引力的、有效的预防干预课程，以及培训讲习班，使用和评估可向广泛的教育工作者教授的课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to published NIDA research topics calling for innovation in educational programs aimed at substance abuse prevention, the proposed project will develop and empirically tested media literacy alcohol and tobacco use prevention curriculum with use with children in grades three through five. The curriculum will contain goals, lesson plan scripts and activities, core connections to related subject areas, homework suggestions, resources and skill-based evaluation tools. The curriculum will be designed to be ready for use in a range of educational settings including elementary schools, home schools, after school programs, faith-based programs and community based programs (e.g., Boys and Girls Clubs). During Phase I, the overall structure and goals of the curriculum were developed and outlined. The first three lessons were developed in detail and were delivered to 3rd through 5th grade children in a focus group setting by an experienced teacher. In addition, focus groups and consultations with curriculum developers, 3rd-5th grade teachers, and health educators were conducted to provide feedback about the format, goals and content of the curriculum. Consumer satisfaction ratings from both the educators and children were extremely positive suggesting that the prototype of the curriculum was promising and ready for further development and completion. The present application proposes three primary goals including (1) completion of the curriculum and evaluation materials, (2) pilot testing of the curriculum and evaluation protocol in two youth groups, and (3) conduct experiment with random assignment of educators to intervention and wait-list control groups to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding use of tobacco and alcohol products and increasing media literacy-related critical thinking skills. The potential commercial applications of this research include the creation of an easy-to-use, attractive, effective preventive intervention curriculum as well as training workshops in use and evaluation of the curriculum that can be taught to a wide range of educators.