Course description

This is a free course of 2 hours that benefits from access to the lessons learned from COMPASS, a citizen science project competitively funded by the Spanish Government and aimed to evaluate the usability of a mHealth intervention in a primary school setting. No prior knowledge in science reporting is needed for this course.

By the end of this course, the learner will be able to:

• Recognize the key stages of a citizen science project and the required adaptation to the particular circumstances of a primary or secondary school
• Understand and learn how to build community before planning a citizen science project
• Plan the systematic procedure of data collection and the process of analysis and interpretation of information gathered in the classroom context 
• Highlight the evaluation of citizen science projects, once finished, as a tool to improve the processes and outcomes.

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