July 7th, 2019 | EVALUATION
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.
Document
instrument_for_informalscience_org-converted.pdf
Team Members
Jordan Raddick, Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins UniversityKaren Carney, Former Principal Investigator, Adler Planetarium
Jason Reed, Project Manager, Adler Planetarium
Andrea Lardner, Project Staff, Johns Hopkins University
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Informal Science Education
Award Number: 1407036
Funding Amount: 926,661
Related URLs
Investigating Audience Engagement with Citizen Science
Tags
Audience: General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline: General STEM | Space science
Resource Type: Research and Evaluation Instruments | Survey
Environment Type: Citizen Science Programs | Media and Technology | Public Programs | Websites | Mobile Apps | Online Media