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DEVISE: Developing, Validating, and Implementing Situated Evaluation Instruments

August 15, 2010 - July 31, 2013 | Public Programs, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This development project will create, test, validate, and disseminate a suite of evaluation tools for use by professionals who are developing Public Participation in Scientific Research projects. The necessary evaluation tools for what participants learn or believe after participating in citizen science projects (called Public Participation in Scientific Research or PPSR) are generally unavailable to project managers where conference participants. The project will collect examples of cognitive and affective test instruments and try them out in citizen science projects underway. This project grew from discussions at a conference on Developing a Citizen Science Toolkit at Cornell in 2007 where participants noted that evaluation is the most challenging and least understood step in the process of project development. Thus to provide projects with the tools of evaluation that are relevant to the field itself and to the development of the projects on citizen science, the investigators intend to conduct a study to demonstrate how an evaluation framework can be used to assess the impact of projects by conducting evaluations and presenting them as case studies. The investigators will provide evaluation tools for project developers and will facilitate community discussion about the use of these materials. The project also will provide an evaluation of the procedures used to create the tool kit for investigators. The evaluators are expert professionals in the field of attitude measurement, cognitive measurement, informal science program creation, and citizen science management. The investigators will provide webinars for investigators planning to use the tool kit in their projects. This project is intended to strengthen the field of informal science education researchers and administrators by providing a source for acceptable measurement methods of the impact on the public of participating in a scientific research project.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 1010744
Funding Amount: 836351

TEAM MEMBERS

  • 2014 04 25 Bonney Rick
    Principal Investigator
    Cornell University
  • IMG 0586
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Science Museum of Minnesota
  • Candie Wilderman
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Dickinson College
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    Contributor
    Science Museum of Minnesota
  • 2014 05 30 photo  4
    Contributor
    Garibay Group
  • 2015 02 03 KHG CB
    Contributor
    Audience Viewpoints Consulting
  • Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
    Audience: Museum/ISE Professionals | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Citizen Science Programs | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Professional Development and Workshops

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