More than just a taste of citizen science

不仅仅是公民科学的体验

• 批准号: 9096632
• 负责人: Nicole Garneau
• 金额: $ 26.71万
• 依托单位: DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9096632
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Museum) proposes a four-year science education project to investigate the role that degree of citizen science participation has on the learning experience and research outcomes of public participation in science research (PPSR) programs. The long-term objective of the project is to contribute to establishing a best practice for citizen science projects in the content area of human health to better inform the design of future projects in PPSR, both in the Museum's lab, and, importantly, in various settings across the field. This project will take place in the Museum' community-based Genetics of Taste Laboratory (Lab), a unique venue for both citizen science and crowdsourcing health data. These two important aspects of PPSR help to not only serve as entry points for public education about health research, but concurrently serve to advance the creation of new knowledge in the field of public health, making it an ideal venue to conduct this proposed work. The proposed research, education, and evaluation project will assess the quality of citizen science participation, barriers to participation for traditionally underrepresened communities in STEM, and scientific outcomes when gradually building from a collaborative PPSR project to a project that is fully co-created with citizen scientist volunteers. To do so, we will employ both learning research techniques and logic model-based evaluation strategies. With the Lab as the foundation for public engagement, we will conduct four scientific research studies over the course of the science education/learning research project. Each scientific study will be designed to systematically employ a higher degree of citizen scientist participation. At each stage of increased participation will propose asking how citizen scientists are engaging and learning, for whom does this occur, how we can better understand and overcome barriers to participation, and the impact on scientific rigor/quality of data and output. By assessing learning and participation in each stage of engagement in a real and authentic scientific process-from study selection to data collection to data analysis and dissemination-we can move the field closer to its full potential of high-level diverse public participation linked to stronger learning outcomes for participants AND scientific data that is sufficiently precise and accurate for peer-reviewed publications. Successful completion of this project will advance the field of citizen science in two key ways: 1) it will provide pathways for how to strategically integrate all aspects of the scientific research process into PPSR programs while maintaining scientific integrity, and 2) suggest ways to overcome barriers for participation in the various aspects of PPSR, especially among groups historically underrepresented in STEM.

 丹佛自然与科学博物馆（博物馆）提出了一个为期四年的科学教育项目，以调查公民科学参与程度对公众参与科学研究（PPSR）计划的学习经验和研究成果的作用。该项目的长期目标是为人类健康内容领域的公民科学项目建立最佳实践，以更好地为未来PPSR项目的设计提供信息，无论是在博物馆的实验室，还是重要的是，在该领域的各种环境中。该项目将在博物馆基于社区的味觉遗传学实验室（实验室）进行，这是公民科学和众包健康数据的独特场所。PPSR的这两个重要方面不仅有助于作为关于健康研究的公共教育的切入点，而且还有助于促进公共卫生领域新知识的创造，使其成为开展这项拟议工作的理想场所。拟议的研究，教育和评估项目将评估公民科学参与的质量，传统上代表性不足的社区参与STEM的障碍，以及从合作PPSR项目逐步建设到与公民科学家志愿者完全共同创建的项目时的科学成果。为此，我们将采用学习研究技术和基于逻辑模型的评估策略。以实验室作为公众参与的基础，我们将在科学教育/学习研究项目的过程中进行四项科学研究。每项科学研究的设计都将系统地采用更高程度的公民科学家参与。在增加参与的每一个阶段，将建议询问公民科学家如何参与和学习，这是为谁发生的，我们如何更好地理解和克服参与的障碍，以及对科学严谨性/数据和输出质量的影响。通过评估学习 在参与真实的和可信的科学过程的每一个阶段--从研究选择到数据收集，再到数据分析和传播--我们可以使该领域更接近其与更强的学习相联系的高层次、多样化的公众参与的全部潜力 参与者的结果和科学数据对于同行评审的出版物来说足够精确和准确。本项目的成功完成将在两个关键方面推进公民科学领域：1）它将为如何战略性地整合所有方面提供途径 在保持科学完整性的同时，将科学研究过程纳入PPSR计划，2）建议如何克服参与PPSR各个方面的障碍，特别是在STEM中历史上代表性不足的群体中。