Substance Use Prevention Media Literacy High School Curriculum

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目将完成一个项目的开发和实证测试，该项目侧重于向高中学生教授媒体素养和媒体宣传技巧，以减少他们使用酒精、烟草和其他药物的意图和目前的使用。这个18节课的课程将包括一本教师手册，其中包括每节课的目标和目的、课程脚本、课堂讲义、家庭作业、额外资源和基于技能的评估工具。此外，该计划还将包括一张DVD，其中包含18个多媒体powerpoint演示文稿，其中集成了视频和音频剪辑，旨在在教授每节课时使用。该计划将被设计用于一系列教育机构，包括公立和私立高中、少年司法、课后、基于信仰和社区的项目。第一阶段的项目开发包括媒体素养和药物滥用科学家，以及全国各地的药物滥用预防专家完成一项基于网络的调查，以指导项目范围和顺序的创建以及前三个原型课程。我们使用了三种方法来收集对修订过程的反馈：1)高中生参加三个焦点小组，2)三位媒体素养和教育专家提供书面评论，3)一位公立高中教师在她的三个九年级健康课中分别试用这三节课。这些小组提供了关于课程形式、目标和内容的反馈，以及在高中生中传播拟议课程的可行性。来自青少年焦点小组参与者、专家评审和试点教师的消费者满意度评分非常积极，表明该计划原型很有前途，可以进一步开发、完成和评估。因此，本申请提出两个主要目标，包括：(1)完成计划的所有组成部分，包括课程、补充计划和评估材料，随后在两个高中健康教育班级进行计划的试点教学；(2)执行一项实验，随机分配高中教师到干预组和候补对照组，以评估计划在改变有关酒精、烟草使用的知识、态度和行为方面的有效性；以及其他与毒品和媒体素养相关的学生批判性思维能力的提高。这项研究的潜在商业应用包括创建一个易于使用、有吸引力、有效的预防干预方案和教师培训讲习班，可以在广泛的教育环境中采用。项目说明：媒体素养和宣传培训是改变药物滥用结果的有效干预措施。该项目的目的是完成和评估一个易于使用，有吸引力的，以研究为基础的预防干预程序，用于利用主动学习方法的高中教师和学生。课程的设计将是灵活的，可以由在公立、私立或家庭学校工作的教育工作者以及健康教育工作者或以信仰为基础的、课后的或以社区为基础的项目的青年团体领导人讲授。该项目将开发一种商业上可用的、对教师友好的教育工具，其结果经过经验检验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will complete the development of and empirically test a program that focuses on teaching media literacy and media advocacy skills to high school students for the purpose of reducing their intent to use and current use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The 18-lesson program will consist of a Teachers Manual including goals and objectives for each lesson, lesson scripts, class handouts, homework assignments, additional resources, and skill-based evaluation tools. In addition, the program will include a DVD with 18 multimedia PowerPoint-like presentations with integrated video and audio clips that are designed to be used while teaching each lesson. The program will be designed for use in a range of educational settings including public and private high schools, and juvenile justice, after school, faith-based, and community-based programs. Program development in Phase I consisted of media literacy and substance abuse scientists, and substance abuse prevention specialists across the country completing a web-based survey to guide the creation of the program Scope and Sequence and the first three prototypic lessons. Three methods were used to gather feedback for the revision process 1) high school students participated in three focus groups, 2) three media literacy and education experts provided a written critique, and 3) a public high school teacher piloted the three lessons in each of her three 9th grade health classes. These groups provided feedback about the format, goals, and content of the curriculum as well as the feasibility of disseminating the proposed program with high school students. Consumer satisfaction ratings from the teenage focus group participants, expert reviewers, and the pilot teacher were extremely positive suggesting that the program prototype was promising, and ready for further development, completion, and evaluation. Thus, the present application proposes two primary goals including: (1) completion of all program components including the curriculum as well as supplemental program and evaluation materials, followed by pilot teaching of the program in two high school, health education classes, and (2) execution of an experiment with random assignment of high school teachers to intervention and wait-list control groups to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in changing the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and increasing media literacy-related critical thinking skills of students. The potential commercial applications of this research include the creation of an easy-to-use, attractive, effective preventive intervention program and teacher training workshops that can be adopted in a wide range of educational settings. Project Narrative: Media literacy and advocacy training are effective interventions for changing substance abuse outcomes. The purpose of this project is to complete and evaluate an easy-to use, attractive, research-based preventive intervention program for use with high school teachers and students that utilizes active learning methods. The curriculum will be designed to be flexible for delivery by educators working in public, private, or home schools as well as by health educators or youth group leaders of faith-based, after school, or community-based programs. This project will result in the development of a commercially available, teacher-friendly, educational tool with empirically-tested results.