Measuring Motivation to Participate in Online Citizen Science
Date:
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Resource Type:
Survey | Research and Evaluation Instruments
Environment Type:
Media and Technology, Websites, Mobile Apps, and Online Media, Public Programs, Citizen Science Programs
Audience:
General Public | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline:
General STEM | Space science
Organization:
Johns Hopkins University, Adler Planetarium
Description:
We have created an instrument to measure the prevalance of various motivations in a population of volunteers in an online citizen science project. Our project is Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), a collection of citizen science projects that have grown out of the Galaxy Zoo website. The instrument is based on a theoretical model of motivation, which is described in the attached document.
Funder(s):
NSF
Funding Program:
Informal Science Education
Award Number:
1407036
Funding Amount:
926,661
Associated Projects
Team Members
Karen CarneyFormer Principal Investigator Jason ReedProject Manager Andrea LardnerProject Staff Request to Edit a Resource
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