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Leveraging Citizen Science in a College Classroom to Build Interest and Efficacy for Science and the Environment

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 6 (2021): Issue 1
By: Haley Smith,  Bradley Allf,  Lincoln Larson,  Sara Futch,  Lisa Lundgren,  Lara Pacifici and  Caren Cooper  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.434 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 16, 2021
Accepted on: Aug 18, 2021
Published on: Dec 1, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
iNaturalist,
undergraduate education,
STEM teaching,
scholarship of teaching and learning,
learning outcomes,
self-efficacy,
experiential learning

© 2021 Haley Smith, Bradley Allf, Lincoln Larson, Sara Futch, Lisa Lundgren, Lara Pacifici, Caren Cooper, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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