Online Foster Parent Training

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目的目标是开发一个在线系统，以加强目前的养父母培训计划。该系统将帮助向希望开始养育子女的个人和那些想要提高现有技能的人传授育儿技能。此外，该系统将改善培训的效率，从而减轻社会工作者的工作量，并提高社会工作者监测培训效果的能力。该系统将包含三个组成部分：1)用于教授育儿技能的互动学习模块；2)允许父母跟踪自己的育儿行为的动态图表系统；以及3)供养父母与其他父母和社会工作者讨论问题的在线系统。该项目的第一阶段将包括对拟议系统的可行性进行开发和形成性评估。在初步开发后，形成性评估将分三个阶段进行：1)用户将与设计人员一对一地与系统交互，以确定系统中明显的设计和机械缺陷；2)一小群用户将与系统交互，很少或不与设计人员立即交互；以及3)用户将在家中和办公室与系统交互。在每个阶段之后，将对系统进行修改，以纠正设计和/或机械缺陷。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop an online system to augment current foster parent training programs. The system will assist in teaching parenting skills to individuals who want to begin foster parenting and those who want to improve their existing skills. Additionally, the system will decrease social workers' work loads by improving the efficiency of training over current practices, and increase social workers' ability to monitor training effectiveness. The system will contain three components: 1) interactive learning modules to teach parenting skills, 2) a dynamic graphing system allowing parents to track their own parenting behaviors, and 3) an online system for foster parents to discuss issues with other parents and social workers. Phase I of this project will include the development and formative evaluation of the proposed system's feasibility. After initial development, formative evaluation will occur in three stages: 1) users will interact with the system one-on-one with the designers to determine obvious design and mechanical flaws in the system; 2) small groups of users will interact with the system with little or no immediate interaction with the designers; and 3) users will interact with the system in their homes and offices. After each stage, the system will be revised to correct design and/or mechanical flaws.