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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21546705p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #467.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.509
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Citizen Sky is a new three-year, astronomical citizen science project launched in June, 2009 with funding from the National Science Foundation. This paper reports on early results of an assessment delivered to 1000 participants when they first joined the project. The goal of the assessment, based on the Nature of Scientific Knowledge Scale (NSKS), is to characterize their attitudes towards the nature of scientific knowledge. Our results are that the NSKS components of the assessment achieved high levels of reliability. Both reliability and overall scores fall within the range reported from other NSKS studies in the literature. Correlation analysis with other components of the assessment reveals some factors, such as age and understanding of scientific evidence, may be reflected in scores of subscales of NSKS items. Further work will be done using online discourse analysis and interviews. Overall, we find that the NSKS can be used as an entrance assessment for an online citizen science project.
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