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Civic engagement among adolescents: Spanish adaptation and validation of the civic engagement scale

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this research was to adapt and validate the Civic Engagement Scale (CES) developed by Doolittle & Faul for the Spanish adolescent population while providing empirical support for its psychometric properties. After administering the instruments to 965 adolescents from high schools, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to ...
Patricia Ayllón‐Salas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science -- A Study of Performers and Talkers [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2014
The recent emergence of online citizen science is illustrative of an efficient and effective means to harness the crowd in order to achieve a range of scientific discoveries. Fundamentally, citizen science projects draw upon crowds of non-expert volunteers to complete short Tasks, which can vary in domain and complexity.
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Educating teachers toward immigrant empowerment and liberation in the United States and Chile: A funds of knowledge perspective

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how university‐based teacher education programs in diverse historical, sociocultural, and political settings in the U.S. and in Chile, served to foster immigrant empowerment and liberation. Using a Funds of Knowledge approach, the study analyzed the educational practices of migrant families and their integration into ...
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen science for cuneiform studies

open access: yes, 2012
This paper examines the potential applications of Citizen Science and Open Linked Data within a critical Web Science framework. Described here is a work-inprocess concerning an interdisciplinary, multiinstitutional project for the digitization ...
Dahl, Jacob   +3 more
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Measurement errors with low-cost citizen science radiometers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The KdUINO is a Do-It-Yourself buoy with low-cost radiometers that measure a parameter related to water transparency, the diffuse attenuation coefficient integrated into all the photosynthetically active radiation. In this contribution, we analyze the
Bardají, R., Piera Fernández, Jaume
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Social license through citizen science: a tool for marine conservation

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2019
Active and meaningful public engagement is necessary to foster informed and publicly accepted natural resource management. Citizen science presents an important avenue by which to achieve such engagement.
Rachel Kelly   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Someday, I'll be an ancestor:” Understanding indigenous intergenerational connectedness through qualitative research to inform measure development

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Intergenerational connectedness broadly encompasses relations among humans, lands, and all living and spiritual beings, and functions as an important part of Indigenous well‐being. Many public health campaigns and interventions aim to promote connectedness to support holistic wellness and reduce health inequities. Currently, however, there are
Victoria M. O'Keefe   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen science approaches for water quality measurements.

open access: yesScience of the Total Environment, 2023
Sara Blanco Ramírez   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Engaging decolonial approaches to deracialize and humanize migrants

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract We are continuing to live in unsettling times that demand responses from researchers, scholars and activists to create and mobilise knowledge for liberation, wellbeing, and justice. This commentary draws from my lived experience and research in migration that I use to highlight the rootshock of displacement and the contributions of community ...
Christopher C. Sonn
wiley   +1 more source

Building Australia through citizen science [PDF]

open access: yes
BACKGROUND Citizen science brings scientists and the wider community together to work on important scientific projects. It has played a central and celebrated role in the advancement of global knowledge. From amateur astronomers tracking the transit of
Carla Sbrocchi   +3 more
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