Studies that have used DEVISE scales

The following list of publications have used one or more of the DEVISE scales in their work. Please email us if you have additional studies to add to this list. 

Published:

• Lewis, R., and Carson, S. (2021). Measuring Science Skills Development in New Zealand High School Students After Participation in Citizen Science Using a DEVISE Evaluation Scale. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 1-10.
  • Skills of Science Inquiry
• Sandhaus, S., Kaufmann, D., & Ramirez-Andreotta, M. (2019). Public participation, trust and data sharing: Gardens as hubs for citizen science and environmental health literacy efforts. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 9(1), 54-71.
  • Motivation for science learning
  • Motivation for environmental action
  • Self-efficacy for learning and doing science
  • Motivation environmental action

• Halliwell, Philip M. (2019) National Park Citizen Science Participation: Exploring Place Attachment and Stewardship, Prescott College, Ann Arbor.. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240055701?accountid=6724.
  • Motivation for Environmental Action
• Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, and Illah Nourbakhsh. (2019). Smell Pittsburgh: Engaging Community Citizen Science for Air Quality. arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11936. (Article accepted by ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems) https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11936
  • Efficacy for Environmental Action and Motivation for Environmental Action
• Yen-Chia Hsu, Jennifer Cross, Paul Dille, Michael Tasota, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, and Illah Nourbakhsh. (2019). Smell Pittsburgh: community-empowered mobile smell reporting system. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019). ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3301275.3302293
  • Efficacy for Environmental Action and Motivation for Environmental Action

• Peterman, K., Withy, K., & Boulay, R. (2018). Validating Common Measures of Self-Efficacy and Career Attitudes within Informal Health Education for Middle and High School Students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 17(2), ar26.
  • Efficacy for Learning and Doing Science

• Lynch, L. I., Dauer, J. M., Babchuk, W. A., Heng-Moss, T., & Golick, D. (2018). In their own words: The significance of participant perceptions in assessing entomology citizen science learning outcomes using a mixed methods approach. Insects, 9(1), 16.
  • Science Self-Efficacy scale
  • Self-Efficacy for Environmental Action scale
  • Shortened Nature Relatedness scale
    

• Phillips, T. B. (2017). Engagement and learning in environmentally-based citizen science: A mixed methods comparative case study. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Ithaca NY.
  • Skills of Science inquiry
  • Efficacy for Learning and Doing Science
  • Motivation for Citizen Science
  • Participant Engagement Metric
  • Environmental Stewardship

• Flagg, B. N. (2016). Contribution of Multimedia to Girls’ Experience of Citizen Science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 1(2), 11. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.51
  • Interest in Science (youth)
• Merenlender, A. M., Crall, A. W., Drill, S., Prysby, M., & Ballard, H. (2016). Evaluating environmental education, citizen science, and stewardship through naturalist programs. Conservation Biology, 30(6), 1255-1265.
  • Environmental Stewardship Scale (older version).

Unpublished, or In Preparation:

• Michael Weisberg, Laboratorio para la Vida y el Ambiente (LAVA) Report: Sea Lion Community Science Project June 2018 – December 2018 
  • Motivation for Environmental Action
• Albert Bhulana, South Africa (PhD student from Wits University)
  • Interest in Science Youth/Adults
• McLeod, P., Schuldt, J., Crain, R., Dickinson, J.L. Does Terminology Matter? Effects of Framing A “Citizen Science” Platform on Sustainability Actions (In prep)
  • Efficacy for Environmental Action
  • Motivation for Environmental Action
• Yaela Golumbic, Sydney University 
  • Interest in Science (Youth)
• Kathleen Gray, UNC Institute for the Environment
  • Efficacy for Environmental Action
• Megan Littrell, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado.
  • Interest in Science (Adults)