Saturday, October 5, 2024
10/5/2024
The goals of this project are (1) to use an Accessible Interactive Fiction (AIF) story to improve the college readiness outcomes for an underserved population, specifically college-bound students with autism spectrum disorder (CBASD), and to provide information to their counselor to deliver targeted instruction in areas of most need. The objectives include: (1) for each of the five stories, define the requirements of an AIF story that enable students to practice key college readiness skills, using any computer/mobile device with a web browser; (2) create the five stories based on Objective 1; (3) build a web service to capture the student’s progress; and (4) measure the acceptability and usefulness of CRS with actual CBASD students who represent a cross-section of the underserved population, to improve the student’s college readiness skills and to help the teacher deliver more targeted instruction. Anticipated outcomes are the student’s mastery of college readiness skills and a counselor’s ability to deliver more targeted instruction in face-to-face provisioning of habilitation. The expected product is a system that CBASD students will use under counselor guidance, to help these students survive and thrive in college, by improving their college readiness skills which will result in more of these students finding a college appropriate to their needs, more students completing their college studies and graduating, and more students finding increased access to job opportunities, increased earning potential, economic stability, and personal growth.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
