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Fig. 16.2
Description of site engagement with arts and humanities inquiry by genre
In our survey, we were also interested in how participants perceive the relevance
of arts and humanities inquiry within the LTER network. To answer this question,
we asked participants to respond to the following statement: Arts and humanities
inquiry is relevant to and important for LTER sites (Fig.
16.3
).
Nineteen of the 24 sites agree or strongly agree that arts and humanities inquiry
is important and relevant for the sites. No site disagrees.
16.3.2
What Is the Perceived Value of This Work?
We used a draggable bar question, which allows respondents to rank statements
between 0 and 100, to understand the relative importance of a series of potential
values for arts and humanities inquiry (Fig.
16.4
). This question type is useful
because it is interactive and allows for relatively easy ranking of multiple items.
While research on the response consistency between this and other question types is
somewhat mixed (Downes-Le Guin et al.
2012
), we found it a worthwhile tool to
observe trends across the fi eld of responses. To facilitate analysis, we grouped
results in a 7-category Likert-style format (Figs.
16.5
,
16.6
,
16.7
and
16.8
).
2
2
We implemented the Likert conversion to facilitate our analysis. Therefore the scale was not avail-
able for participants during their survey experience.
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