Me, A Doc!

描述(申请人提供)：我的目标，A单据！是通过一个以探究为中心的、基于网络的视频游戏来教育高中生和本科生，在游戏中，每个学生都扮演一个面对神秘疾病的医生的角色。这款游戏将检验我们的假设，即合作学习、笔记、识字支架、反馈学习、探究和模拟现实生活经验的原则可以结合在一个基于计算机的激励性游戏中，以改善学生对人类生理学、细胞生物学和疾病的学习-所有这些都以一种非评判的方式培养批判性思维，并缩小少数族裔或经济困难学生经常看到的成绩差距。我，一个医生！将让用户作为医生从图书馆阅读和记下笔记，从病历和物理和实验室检查中记录笔记，将这些笔记与从图书馆中选择的笔记联系起来，从虚拟的、可滚动的数据库窗口选择测试和程序(列出了完成的成本和时间)，向虚拟患者解释过程，最后以最低的成本在最短的时间内得出最佳诊断和开出最合适的治疗方案。我们预计，第一阶段开发的第一个案例的试点测试将揭示Me，A Doc！的技术可行性！并表明它得到了学生和老师的欣赏和兴奋。在第一阶段，我们将开发与相关接待室、办公室、实验室和程序室的用户界面，开发情节串连图板和程序库，以支持第一个病例和可逻辑地减少为一种的替代诊断，从试行可行性测试中获得学生和教师的反馈，并计划第二阶段项目。在第二阶段，我们希望创建和试行更多的案例，招募学校，并进行由外部独立专家团队管理的广泛的受控评估。主要的结果变量将是1)对生物学、生理学和疾病的理解的提高，以及2)在性别、种族/民族、教育背景和社会经济地位不同的学生群体之间经常看到的成绩差距的缩小。次要结果变量将是学生和教师态度的衡量标准，以及科学职业计划可能发生的变化。该项目与NCRR的使命直接相关：将教育技术和工具应用于健康科学主题的教育……主题可以从基本的分子和细胞生物学到人类疾病。这可以扩大到提高普通公众的健康科学素养。与公共健康相关：我，一个医生！提出了一种创新的方法，让我们的年轻人参与到一个具有教育意义的计划中，并发挥视频游戏的激励作用。专注于医学诊断，我，医生！使用批判性思维和科学探究来指导学生理解生物学、生理学和医疗保健。这有助于提高我国公民的健康素养，从而降低医疗保健成本。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of Me, A Doc! is to educate high school and undergraduate students through an inquiry-centric, web-based video game in which each student plays the role of a doctor confronted with a mysterious illness. The game will test our hypothesis that the principles of cooperative learning, note-taking, literacy scaffolding, feedback learning, inquiry, and simulated real-life experiences can be combined in a motivational, computer- based game to improve student learning about human physiology, cell biology, and disease - all in a non- judgmental way that fosters critical thinking and reduces the achievement gap often seen with minority or economically disadvantaged students. Me, A Doc! will involve the user as a doc reading and taking notes from a library, taking notes from case histories and physical and laboratory examinations, linking these notes to those selected from the library, selecting tests and procedures (listed with costs and time for completion) from a virtual, scrollable, database window, explaining processes to the virtual patient, and, finally, arriving at the best diagnosis and prescribing the most appropriate therapy in the shortest time at the lowest cost. We anticipate that pilot testing of the first case developed during Phase I will reveal the technical feasibility of Me, A Doc! and show that it is appreciated by and exciting to students and teachers. During Phase I we will develop the user interface with relevant reception, office, laboratory, and procedure rooms, develop a storyboard and library to support the first case with alternative diagnoses that can be logically reduced to one, obtain student and teacher feedback from a pilot feasibility test, and plan the Phase II project. During Phase II, we expect to create and pilot-test additional cases, recruit schools, and run an extensive, controlled evaluation managed by an external, independent team of experts. Primary outcome variables will be 1) improvement in understanding of biology, physiology, and disease, and 2) reduction in the achievement gap often seen between the performance of groups of students differing in gender, race/ethnicity, educational background, and socioeconomic status. Secondary outcome variables will be measures of student and teacher attitudes and possible change in science career plans. The project is directly relevant to the mission of the NCRR: application of educational technology and tools for education on health science topics... Topics can range from basic molecular and cellular biology to human diseases... that can be extended to enhance the health science literacy of the general public. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Me, A Doc! proposes an innovative approach to engage our youth in a pedagogically strong program with the motivating impact of video games. Focused on medical diagnosis, Me, A Doc! uses critical thinking and scientific inquiry to guide students in understanding biology, physiology, and healthcare. This could help improve the health literacy of our citizenry and thereby reduce health care costs.