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Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science

Citizen science is an important approach to monitoring for biodiversity conservation because it allows for data acquisition or analysis on a scale that is not possible for researchers alone. In citizen science projects, the use of online training is increasing to improve such skills. However, the ef...

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Autores principales: Ogawa, Yui, Fukasawa, Keita, Yoshioka, Akira, Kumada, Nao, Takenaka, Akio, Ito, Taiichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10239230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273535
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15387
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author Ogawa, Yui
Fukasawa, Keita
Yoshioka, Akira
Kumada, Nao
Takenaka, Akio
Ito, Taiichi
author_facet Ogawa, Yui
Fukasawa, Keita
Yoshioka, Akira
Kumada, Nao
Takenaka, Akio
Ito, Taiichi
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description Citizen science is an important approach to monitoring for biodiversity conservation because it allows for data acquisition or analysis on a scale that is not possible for researchers alone. In citizen science projects, the use of online training is increasing to improve such skills. However, the effectiveness of quiz-style online training, assumed to be efficient to enhance participants’ skills, has not been evaluated adequately on species identification for citizen science biodiversity monitoring projects. Memory mechanisms in adaptive learning were hypothesized to guide the development of quiz-based online training tools for learning birdsong identification and for improving interest in birds and natural environments. To examine the hypothesis, we developed a quiz-style online training tool called TORI-TORE. We experimentally applied TORI-TORE in Fukushima, Japan, and examined its effectiveness for bird identification training using test scores and questionnaires to determine participants’ attitudes in a randomized control trial. We obtained the following key results: (1) TORI-TORE had positive effects on test scores and trainees’ attitudes toward birds. (2) Adaptive training, in which questions focused preferentially on unmastered bird species based on the answer history of individual trainees inspired by adaptive learning, unexpectedly led to lower scores and satisfaction in TORI-TORE. (3) Focusing on species that are relatively easy to remember, short lag times between training and testing, and long question intervals positively affected scores. While there is room for improvement, we expect TORI-TORE to contribute to online capacity building and to increase interest in natural environments.
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spelling pubmed-102392302023-06-04 Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science Ogawa, Yui Fukasawa, Keita Yoshioka, Akira Kumada, Nao Takenaka, Akio Ito, Taiichi PeerJ Biodiversity Citizen science is an important approach to monitoring for biodiversity conservation because it allows for data acquisition or analysis on a scale that is not possible for researchers alone. In citizen science projects, the use of online training is increasing to improve such skills. However, the effectiveness of quiz-style online training, assumed to be efficient to enhance participants’ skills, has not been evaluated adequately on species identification for citizen science biodiversity monitoring projects. Memory mechanisms in adaptive learning were hypothesized to guide the development of quiz-based online training tools for learning birdsong identification and for improving interest in birds and natural environments. To examine the hypothesis, we developed a quiz-style online training tool called TORI-TORE. We experimentally applied TORI-TORE in Fukushima, Japan, and examined its effectiveness for bird identification training using test scores and questionnaires to determine participants’ attitudes in a randomized control trial. We obtained the following key results: (1) TORI-TORE had positive effects on test scores and trainees’ attitudes toward birds. (2) Adaptive training, in which questions focused preferentially on unmastered bird species based on the answer history of individual trainees inspired by adaptive learning, unexpectedly led to lower scores and satisfaction in TORI-TORE. (3) Focusing on species that are relatively easy to remember, short lag times between training and testing, and long question intervals positively affected scores. While there is room for improvement, we expect TORI-TORE to contribute to online capacity building and to increase interest in natural environments. PeerJ Inc. 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10239230/ /pubmed/37273535 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15387 Text en ©2023 Ogawa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Biodiversity
Ogawa, Yui
Fukasawa, Keita
Yoshioka, Akira
Kumada, Nao
Takenaka, Akio
Ito, Taiichi
Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
title Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
title_full Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
title_fullStr Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
title_full_unstemmed Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
title_short Quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
title_sort quiz-style online training tool helps to learn birdsong identification and support citizen science
topic Biodiversity
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10239230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273535
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15387
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