2020
DOI: 10.5334/cstp.224
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Online Citizen Science: A Systematic Review of Effects on Learning and Scientific Literacy

Abstract: Participation in online citizen science is increasingly popular, yet studies that examine the impact on participants' learning are limited. The aims of this paper are to identify the learning impact on volunteers who participate in online citizen science projects and to explore the methods used to study the impact. The ten empirical studies, examined in this systematic review, report learning impacts on citizens' attitudes towards science, on their understanding of the nature of science, on topic-specific know… Show more

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“…Ideally, participant surveys should take place before and after participation in the project to be able to compare pre-participation responses with post-participation and follow-up responses. However, this kind of study design is difficult to implement in informal contexts with flexible and voluntary/free-choice participation and has therefore rarely been implemented (Aristeidou & Herodotou, 2020).…”
Section: Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Ideally, participant surveys should take place before and after participation in the project to be able to compare pre-participation responses with post-participation and follow-up responses. However, this kind of study design is difficult to implement in informal contexts with flexible and voluntary/free-choice participation and has therefore rarely been implemented (Aristeidou & Herodotou, 2020).…”
Section: Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such projects often involve, but are not limited to, online activities (Peter et al., 2019). In addition, there are biodiversity‐related citizen science projects that are run entirely online, for example, projects found on http://www.zooniverse.org (also see Aristeidou & Herodotou, 2020). However, such projects were not included in our study.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Engaging people in scientific activities via Citizen Science (CS) has been discussed as an approach to opening up science to the public [ 1 ], advancing volunteers’ informal science education [ 2 ], empowering people with valuable skills for society [ 3 ], and contributing diverse perspectives to a more robust science [ 4 ]. Currently, there is a lack of agreement as to what CS is or means, which has resulted in considerable heterogeneity amongst CS projects, difficulties in assessing the quality of the projects and their outcomes, and a risk in establishing trust between citizens and scientists [ 5 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Phillips et al [ 14 ] have mapped these outcomes to six categories including personal interest to a CS project, self-efficacy to participate in the activity, motivation to achieve a science behaviour, knowledge of science content and the scientific process, development of science skills such as asking questions and designing studies, and behaviour, stewardship and civic action [ 14 ]. Amongst the benefits of participating in online CS is changing attitudes towards science, having a better understanding of the nature of science, increasing their science knowledge and additional topic-specific knowledge, and gaining generic knowledge about, for example, technology and language skills [ 3 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All of this results in the need to promote better scientific literacy in the critical and well-founded distinction, if possible, between facts and valuation opinions (Aristeidou & Herodotou, 2020;Stokken & Børsen, 2020;McGinnis, 2020;Laugksch, 2000), to shape a better response and management of the COVID-19 pandemic (Li & Liu, 2020;Naeem & Bhatti, 2020;Anwar et al, 2020;. In this process of fostering scientific literacy, interdisciplinarity plays an extremely important role (Anderson, Justement, & Bruns, 2020;Serpa, Ferreira, & Santos, 2017;Reiss, 2020).…”
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