DEVISE: Developing, Validating, and Implementing Situated Evaluation Instruments

这一开发项目将创建、测试、验证和传播一套评估工具，供发展公众参与科学研究项目的专业人员使用。在参与公民科学项目(称为公众参与科学研究或PPSR)后，对参与者学习或相信什么的必要评估工具通常对参加会议的项目经理来说是不可用的。该项目将收集认知和情感测试工具的例子，并在正在进行的公民科学项目中进行试验。该项目源于2007年康奈尔大学关于开发公民科学工具包的会议上的讨论，与会者指出，评估是项目开发过程中最具挑战性和最不被理解的步骤。因此，为了向项目提供与该领域本身和公民科学项目发展有关的评价工具，调查人员打算进行一项研究，以展示如何通过开展评价并将其作为个案研究来使用评价框架来评估项目的影响。调查人员将为项目开发人员提供评估工具，并将促进社区对这些材料的使用进行讨论。该项目还将对为调查人员创建工具包所使用的程序进行评价。评估者是态度测量、认知测量、非正式科学项目创建和公民科学管理领域的专家专业人员。调查人员将为计划在其项目中使用工具包的调查人员提供网络研讨会。该项目旨在通过为参与科学研究项目对公众的影响提供可接受的测量方法的来源，加强非正式科学教育研究人员和管理人员的领域。

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.