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BC Allf, CB Cooper, LR Larson, RR Dunn, SE Futch… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com

Citizen science as an ecosystem of engagement: implications for learning and broadening participation.

Broadening participation informal stem education

Allf, Cooper, Dunn, Larson

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The bulk of research on citizen science participants is project centric, based on an assumption that volunteers experience a single project. Contrary to this assumption, survey responses (n= 3894) and digital trace data (n= 3649) from volunteers, who collectively engaged in 1126 unique projects, revealed that multiproject participation was the norm. Only 23% of volunteers were singletons (who participated in only one project). The remaining multiproject participants were split evenly between discipline specialists (39%) and …

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