Toolkit for Evaluating Impacts of Public Participation in Scientific Research

Presenter

Tina Phillips, Cornell University

Abstract

Public Participation in Scientific Research (PPSR), often referred to as “citizen science,” is the intentional engagement of the public in scientific research and/or environmental monitoring. How does the Toolkit for Evaluating Impacts of PPSR, currently being developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, provide project developers and other professionals, especially those with limited understanding of evaluation techniques, with a systematic method for assessing project outcomes? Developers of the toolkit hope it will be widely adopted by evaluators and for projects with limited access to professional evaluators. They encourage professionals to help improve upon the toolkit through use and community experiment to see whether and how development of “standardized” evaluation techniques can improve the effectiveness of projects across the emerging PPSR field.

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