Scientific knowledge and attitude change: The impact of a citizen science project

By Dominique Brossard, Bruce V. Lewenstein, R. Bonney. 2005

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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High School Students’ Attitudes Towards Spiders: A cross‐cultural comparison (2010, background): “For example, Brossard, Lewenstein, and Bonney ( 2005 ) investigated the effects of an informal science education project (The Birdhouse Network) on the participants’ knowledge of birds, and their attitudes towards science and the environment.”
Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers. (2009, neutral): “Participation in scientific research can have many advantages for learners, including a first-hand experience with the scientific process, an increase in knowledge about the research topic (Brossard et al., 2005), and an increase in scientific thinking (Trumbull et al.”
From Conservation to Crowdsourcing: A Typology of Citizen Science (2011, background): “Citizen science is related to long-standing programs employing volunteer monitoring for natural resource management [2], and is often employed as a form of informal science education or outreach to promote public understanding of science [3].”
Biodiversity citizen science: Outcomes for the participating citizens (2021, background): “Brossard et al. (2005) and Jordan et al. (2011) argued that participants need to spend more time and get more information on the project's scientific content and process.”
Can citizen science enhance public understanding of science? (2016, background): “However, project evaluators were not able to measure increased science process knowledge overall (Brossard et al., 2005).”
Creating a Successful Citizen Science Model to Detect and Report Invasive Species (2011, background): “For proper management of invasive species, there is not only a need for data on where they occur but also a need for that data to be freely and readily available to enable cost-effective responses by resource managers (Buhle et al. 2005, Delaney et al. 2008).”
"Disgusting" Animals: Primary School Children's Attitudes and Myths of Bats and Spiders (2008, background): “Brossard, Lewenstein and Bonney (2005) investigated effects of informal science education project (The Birdhouse Network) on participants‟ attitude toward science and environment and knowledge about birds.”
Science education for environmental awareness: approaches to integrating cognitive and affective domains (2008, background): “Ultimately, the aim is to secure positive attitudes, which may lead to pro-environmental behaviour, as evidenced by studies that show positive impact of science projects on understanding and attitudes to science or the environment (Crane et al. 1994; George and Kaplan 1998; Brossard et al. 2005).”
Contributions from citizen science to science education: an examination of a biodiversity citizen science project with schools in Central Europe (2018, background): “The implications are that discrepancies between scientific and educational aims persist, affecting outcomes for both (see Brossard et al., 2005; Jordan, Crall, Gray, Phillips, & Mellor, 2015).”
Improving and integrating data on invasive species collected by citizen scientists (2010, background): “Such data may improve professional predictions on species’ future distributions, allowing the timely dissemination of these results to an educated public (Crosier and Stohlgren 2004; Brossard et al. 2005; Stohlgren and Schnase 2006).”
Does Participation in Citizen Science Improve Scientific Literacy? A Study to Compare Assessment Methods (2011, methodology): “Scoring Scheme Used by Brossard et al. (2005) on the Open-Ended SEI Scientific Literacy Item: “Please Tell Us in Your Own Words What it Means to Study Something Scientifically” 1 = responses describing a scientific study as theory building or testing 2 = responses focusing on experimental studies…”