Scientific knowledge and attitude change: The impact of a citizen science project

Brossard, Dominique; Lewenstein, Bruce V.; Bonney, Rick

doi:10.1080/09500690500069483

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“…Many projects are explicitly designed to have citizen scientists experience the scientific processes; thus, Bonney et al [2009] concluded that most citizen-science projects are designed to help citizen scientists learn scientific knowledge to some degree. Consistent with these efforts, volunteers of citizen-science projects reported that they actually learned about science by participating in the projects [e.g., Brossard, Lewenstein and Bonney, 2005;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016a;Masters et al, 2016].…”

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confidence: 81%

“…The possibility to contribute to science has emerged as a major motivation in several studies. For example, Zooniverse volunteers answered that they are more motivated by their contribution to science than by the possibility to learn about science or to help scientists [Brossard, Lewenstein and Bonney, 2005;Reed et al, 2013]. Contributing to science was listed as a primary contributor for participation in CosmoQuest [Gugliucci, Gay and Bracey, 2014], Foldit [Curtis, 2015], and in the Dutch Great Influenza Survey [Land-Zandstra et al, 2016b] and the second most cited reason for the Great Pollinator Project [Domroese and Johnson, 2017].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, citizen scientists in Zooniverse projects often classify scientific data. Recent surveys and interviews show that citizen science volunteers are motivated to participate in projects by the opportunity to contribute to science [e.g., Brossard, Lewenstein and Bonney, 2005;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016a;Land-Zandstra et al, 2016b;Reed et al, 2013]. The possibility to contribute to science has emerged as a major motivation in several studies.…”

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Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Lee¹,

Crowston²,

Harandi³

et al. 2018

JCOM

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This study examines the relative efficacy of citizen science recruitment messages appealing to four motivations that were derived from previous research on motives for participation in citizen-science projects. We report on an experiment (N=36,513) that compared the response to email messages designed to appeal to these four motives for participation. We found that the messages appealing to the possibility of contributing to science and learning about science attracted more attention than did one about helping scientists but that one about helping scientists generated more initial contributions. Overall, the message about contributing to science resulted in the largest volume of contributions and joining a community, the lowest. The results should be informative to those managing citizen-science projects. Abstract Citizen science Keywordshttps://doi

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Harandi³

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“…Therefore, the attitude evaluation using observation sheet is needed, to get an accurate measurement. A proper and accurate measurement tool to evaluate the change in one's attitude is also argued by Brossard et al (2005). That is why the present research also employed observations to measure students' attitudes towards the environment.…”

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The Application of Project-Based Learning Using Mind Maps to Improve Students’ Environmental Attitudes Towards Waste Management in Junior High Schools

Susilawati

Hernani

Sinaga

2017

IJE

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This research aims to determine the effectiveness of project-based learning method using mind maps in science learning for the topic of waste management and its solution to improve students’ environmental attitudes. It adopted a quasi-experimental method with the pretest-posttest control group design. The subjects of the research consisted of the seventh grade students of two classes in one of the private junior high schools in Bandung Regency. The instrument used for data collection was a pretest and posttest on environmental attitudes for students, a questionnaire, and observations of environmental attitudes of the students from peer assessment, teacher’s observations in the school, and parents’ observations at home. The data were analyzed by considering the gain value with its normalization and counting the size effect. The results of the data analysis indicated that gain <g> = 0.61 for the experimental class and <g> = 0.41 for the control class, and effect size d = 0.37. These values mean that there were improvements in the students’ environmental attitudes in the school and at home after the application of project-based learning with mind maps. It is concluded that PjBL (Project-Based Learning) method using mind maps for the theme of waste and its management works effectively since it has a small effect on improving students’ environmental attitudes.

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“…Citizen science will usually incorporate an element of public education [2,6,[13][14][15]. Silvertown [5] described the differentiation between historical and modern forms of citizen science by potential for it to be "available to all, not just a privileged few."…”

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The Citizen Science Landscape: From Volunteers to Citizen Sensors and Beyond

Catlin-Groves

2012

International Journal of Zoology

110

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Within conservation and ecology, volunteer participation has always been an important component of research. Within the past two decades, this use of volunteers in research has proliferated and evolved into "citizen science." Technologies are evolving rapidly. Mobile phone technologies and the emergence and uptake of high-speed Web-capable smart phones with GPS and data upload capabilities can allow instant collection and transmission of data. This is frequently used within everyday life particularly on social networking sites. Embedded sensors allow researchers to validate GPS and image data and are now affordable and regularly used by citizens. With the "perfect storm" of technology, data upload, and social networks, citizen science represents a powerful tool. This paper establishes the current state of citizen science within scientific literature, examines underlying themes, explores further possibilities for utilising citizen science within ecology, biodiversity, and biology, and identifies possible directions for further research. The paper highlights (1) lack of trust in the scientific community about the reliability of citizen science data, (2) the move from standardised data collection methods to data mining available datasets, and (3) the blurring of the line between citizen science and citizen sensors and the need to further explore online social networks for data collection.

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Scientific knowledge and attitude change: The impact of a citizen science project

Cited by 549 publications

References 22 publications

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

The Application of Project-Based Learning Using Mind Maps to Improve Students’ Environmental Attitudes Towards Waste Management in Junior High Schools

The Citizen Science Landscape: From Volunteers to Citizen Sensors and Beyond

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