Abstract
Many projects involving robotic telescope education programs do not have published peer-review evaluations (Gomez and Fitzgerald, 2017). Most evaluations in this discipline area tend to be unreliable with questionable methodology and published in non-peer-reviewed conference proceedings or in the grey literature. It is not the case that evaluations are required to be peer-reviewed to be useful to the people running the project, but it is likely that grant funding bodies and other researchers will largely only trust peer-reviewed studies. It is also not the case that evaluations have to be public, they can be done privately for the interest of project personnel and project development alone. Either way, there are many things that need to be considered when planning a project evaluation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education (RTSRE) Proceedings Conference Proceedings |
| Editors | M. Fitzgerald , C.R. James, S. Buxner, S. White |
| Place of Publication | San Diego, California, USA, |
| Pages | 57-63 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780648399605 |
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| Publication status | Published - 18 Oct 2018 |
| Event | 2nd Annual Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education (RTSRE) 2017 - Hacienda Hotel, San Diego, United States Duration: 18 Jun 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 https://aas.org/events/2017-02/robotic-telescopes-student-research-and-education (Conference information) |
Conference
| Conference | 2nd Annual Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education (RTSRE) 2017 |
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| Abbreviated title | Past, present, future |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego |
| Period | 18/06/17 → 22/06/17 |
| Other | NOTE - program attached to PID 480414047 The Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education: Past, Present, Future conference will focus on the use of remotely-located, relatively small, typically optical robotic telescopes to support, promote, and drive research undertaken by high school and undergraduate students for scientific research as well as educational outcomes and uses. The conference will aim to tie diverse strands into a coherent story of where we have been (the past), where we are now (the present), and outline the pathways and challenges going forward (the future). In doing so, we endeavor to provide a synthesis of the relatively disconnected communities surrounding remote and robotic telescopes, scientific research, and astronomy education to provide a global picture of the field in its current state. |
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