Embedded Assessment and Innovation Adoption for SciStarter 2.0: Understanding Participant Dynamics and Outcomes in a Landscape of Citizen Science Projects

SciStarter 2.0 的嵌入式评估和创新采用：了解公民科学项目中的参与者动态和成果

基本信息

批准号：
1713562
负责人：
Caren Cooper
金额：
$ 86.89万
依托单位：
North Carolina State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1713562&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Embedded Assessment Innovation Adoption SciStarter

项目摘要

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative research, approaches and resources for use in a variety of settings.The project plans to develop evidence-based principles to guide citizen science project owners in the coordinated management of project participants within the SciStarter landscape. SciStarter is a repository of over 1,500 citizen science (CS) projects. Through prior research, SciStarter 2.0 tools were developed which can be used to study and coordinate recruitment and retention strategies across projects. Coordinated management has the potential to deepen volunteer learning and growth and benefit project goals because it can address across-project skew (CS volunteers involved in multiple projects), evolving motivations, seasonal gaps, untapped synergies across projects, and other unanticipated factors that cannot be addressed via management within project silos. The project will increase the capacity of citizen science projects to achieve their myriad scientific, learning and conservation goals through enhanced coordination of volunteer management, facilitated by evidence-based guidance from the SciStarter's User's Manual for Project Owners. The findings of the research will guide project design and implementation towards synergies that increase the capacity of projects to generate scientific, learning, and conservation outcomes. Research about citizen scientists has focused on within-project assessments and comparisons of projects, but few have examined dynamics of recruitment, retention, and movement of individuals across projects. SciStarter is designed for embedded tracking of participation dynamics in a landscape of projects. The project will expand embedded assessment to measure scientific, learning, and conservation outcomes and their links to participation dynamics within and across projects. Through social network analysis, the project will describe patterns of bridges, ties, and distances among projects based on the cross-over of participants. The project will also propose qualitative research to understand project managers' perceptions of SciStarter and the costs and benefits of coordinated management of citizen scientists. The research is designed to provide insights into participation dynamics that will lead to subsequent knowledge building across citizen science projects, and determine whether new evidence about advantages and disadvantages of coordinated management will persuade project owners to rely less on the silo approach to volunteer management.

作为加强非正式环境中学习的总体战略的一部分，推进非正式 STEM 学习 (AISL) 计划资助创新研究、方法和资源，以供在各种环境中使用。该项目计划制定循证原则来指导公民科学项目所有者在 SciStarter 环境中协调管理项目参与者。 SciStarter 是一个包含 1,500 多个公民科学 (CS) 项目的存储库。通过之前的研究，开发了 SciStarter 2.0 工具，可用于研究和协调跨项目的招聘和保留策略。协调管理有潜力加深志愿者的学习和成长，并有利于项目目标，因为它可以解决跨项目偏差（CS 志愿者参与多个项目）、不断变化的动机、季节性差距、项目间未开发的协同效应以及其他无法预见的因素。通过项目孤岛内的管理来解决。该项目将通过加强志愿者管理的协调，并在 SciStarter 项目所有者用户手册的循证指导的推动下，提高公民科学项目的能力，以实现其无数的科学、学习和保护目标。研究结果将指导项目设计和实施，以实现协同效应，从而提高项目产生科学、学习和保护成果的能力。关于公民科学家的研究主要集中在项目内评估和项目比较，但很少有人研究项目间人员招募、保留和流动的动态。 SciStarter 旨在对项目环境中的参与动态进行嵌入式跟踪。该项目将扩大嵌入式评估，以衡量科学、学习和保护成果及其与项目内部和项目之间的参与动态的联系。通过社交网络分析，该项目将根据参与者的交叉来描述项目之间的桥梁、联系和距离的模式。该项目还将提出定性研究，以了解项目经理对 SciStarter 的看法以及公民科学家协调管理的成本和收益。该研究旨在提供对参与动态的见解，从而促进公民科学项目的后续知识建设，并确定有关协调管理的优点和缺点的新证据是否会说服项目所有者减少对志愿者管理的筒仓方法的依赖。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（9）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Facilitator organizations enhance learning and action through citizen science: a case study of Girl Scouts’ Think Like a Citizen Scientist journey on SciStarter

促进者组织通过公民科学加强学习和行动：女童子军案例研究 — SciStarter 上的“像公民科学家一样思考”之旅

DOI：
10.1080/13504622.2023.2237705
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Environmental Education Research
影响因子：
3.2
作者：
Smith, Haley E.;Cooper, Caren B.;Busch, K.C.;Harper, Suzanne;Muslim, Amy;McKenna, Kaleigh;Cavalier, Darlene
通讯作者：
Cavalier, Darlene

Advice for collaborations among natural and social scientists

为自然科学家和社会科学家之间的合作提供建议

DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biaa029
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
BioScience
影响因子：
10.1
作者：
Cooper, Caren B;Larson, lincoln R
通讯作者：
Larson, lincoln R

Leveraging citizen science in a college classroom to build interest and efficacy for science and the environment

在大学课堂中利用公民科学来培养对科学和环境的兴趣和功效

DOI：
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
Citizen science
影响因子：
0
作者：
Smith, H. E.*
通讯作者：
Smith, H. E.*

Inclusion in citizen science: The conundrum of rebranding

DOI：
10.1126/science.abi6487
发表时间：
2021-06-25
期刊：
SCIENCE
影响因子：
56.9
作者：
Cooper, Caren B.;Hawn, Chris L.;Wilson, Sacoby
通讯作者：
Wilson, Sacoby

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Restrictions on Participation in Community and Citizen Science

COVID-19 大流行及相关限制对参与社区和公民科学的影响

DOI：
10.5334/cstp.463
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
影响因子：
0
作者：
Drill, Sabrina;Rosenblatt, Connor;Cooper, Caren;Cavalier, Darlene;Ballard, Heidi
通讯作者：
Ballard, Heidi