An Innovative Online Tool to Self-evaluate and Compare Participatory Research Projects Labelled as Science Shops or Citizen Science
| Autor: | Leonardo de la Torre Avila, Herman Dempere, Eloi Puertas, Josep Perelló, Anne-Sophie Gresle, Anna Cigarini, Mireia Ribera, Franco Bagnoli, María-Jesús Pinazo, Irene Jimeno |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Evaluation strategy
050402 sociology Knowledge management Computer science business.industry Best practice Impact evaluation 05 social sciences Participatory action research Citizen journalism 050905 science studies Transformative learning 0504 sociology Citizen science 0509 other social sciences Public engagement business |
| Zdroj: | Internet Science-6th International Conference, INSCI 2019, Perpignan, France, December 2–5, 2019, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science Lecture Notes in Computer Science-Internet Science Internet Science ISBN: 9783030347697 INSCI |
| ISSN: | 0302-9743 1611-3349 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-34770-3_5 |
| Popis: | Participatory research keeps expanding to connect science and society through engaging projects using a multi-stakeholder strategy, including citizens. However, each participatory project follows different evaluation formats and strategies. This results in limiting evidences on best practices, hindering the scaling up of Participatory Research. Through the H2020-funded InSPIRES project, an innovative and online-based evaluation strategy was developed which is valid for Participatory Research initiatives labelled as Science Shops or Citizen Science. This strategy challenges those teams that want to undergo a self-reflection process during and after their project is active. An online-tool gathers and automatically analyses data in a harmonized way among projects. The tool delivers back a set of pieces of information through different visualizations which analyze each project’s process in five dimensions, selected-constructed after a careful revision of public engagement and impact evaluation criteria proposed by different projects and researchers. The dimensions evaluated by this online instrument are: (i) Knowledge Democracy, (ii) Citizen-led Research, (iii) Participatory Dynamics, (iv) Integrity, and (v) Transformative Change. Online-based self-evaluation questionnaires were designed and personalized according to the profile of the respondents and are sent out by email in four different stages to capture the momentum of the project, as well as its short-term and mid-term impacts. The quantitative and qualitative evaluation instrument is featured within the InSPIRES Open Platform (OP) which becomes an open repository that allows comparison among participatory projects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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