Measuring Motivation to Participate in Online Citizen Science

July 7, 2019 | Media and Technology, Public Programs

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

Associated Projects

Investigating Audience Engagement with Citizen Science

TEAM MEMBERS

Jordan Raddick

Principal Investigator

Johns Hopkins University

Karen Carney

Former Principal Investigator

Adler Planetarium

Jason Reed

Project Manager

Adler Planetarium

Andrea Lardner

Project Staff

Johns Hopkins University

Citation

Funders

NSF

Funding Program: Informal Science Education

Award Number: 1407036

Funding Amount: 926,661

Resource Type: Research and Evaluation Instruments

Discipline: General STEM | Space science

Audience: General Public | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists

Environment Type: Media and Technology | Websites, Mobile Apps, and Online Media | Public Programs | Citizen Science Programs

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