Substance Abuse Prevention Media Literacy Curriculum

描述（由申请人提供）：为了响应已发表的NIDA研究主题，呼吁在预防药物滥用的教育计划中进行创新，拟议的项目将开发和经验测试的媒体素养酒精和烟草使用预防课程，用于三年级至五年级的儿童。课程将包含目标、课程计划脚本和活动、与相关学科领域的核心联系、家庭作业建议、资源和基于技能的评估工具。该课程将被设计为准备在一系列教育环境中使用，包括小学，家庭学校，课后计划，基于信仰的计划和基于社区的计划（例如，男孩和女孩俱乐部）。在第一阶段，制定和概述了课程的总体结构和目标。前三课是详细制定的，并由一位经验丰富的教师在一个焦点小组中向三到五年级的孩子们提供。此外，还与课程开发人员、三至五年级教师和卫生教育工作者进行了重点小组和磋商，以提供有关课程格式、目标和内容的反馈。教育工作者和儿童的消费者满意度评级都非常积极，表明课程的原型很有希望，可以进一步发展和完成。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）在两个青年组中对课程和评估协议进行试点测试，以及（3）通过将教育者随机分配到干预组和等待列表对照组来进行实验，以评估课程在改变知识方面的有效性，关于使用烟草和酒精产品的态度和行为，以及提高与媒体素养有关的批判性思维技能。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，以及培训讲习班的使用和评估的课程，可以教给广大教育工作者。

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.