Social Network Analysis to Examine Interaction Patterns in Knowledge Building Communities

Philip, Donald N.

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“…This was the highest unstandardized regression coefficient in the MRA and shows a clear alignment with existing research indicating the positive association between reciprocity and students' grades [41]. Facilitating a culture of reciprocity at the network-level could contribute toward students' critical thinking by ensuring that they are interacting sufficiently with other students' responses, as well as contributing ideas of adequate quantity and quality for others to respond to their contributions, as shown by other studies, e.g., Saqr et al [48,68].…”

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Exploring Conditions for Enhancing Critical Thinking in Networked Learning: Findings from a Secondary School Learning Analytics Environment

Koh

Jonathan

Tan³

2019

Education Sciences

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Networked learning provides opportunities for learners to develop their critical thinking, an important 21st century competency, through dialogue with fellow learners to consider other perspectives and negotiate and critique ideas and arguments. However, much extant literature has not examined networked learning environments among younger learners nor the optimal conditions for enhancing critical thinking. Therefore, a study was carried out to investigate these conditions. A learning analytics networked learning environment was designed and 264 secondary three students participated in the 10-week long intervention as part of their English curriculum. Individual and collective social network metrics, critical reading scores, and self-reported survey data were used to quantitatively evaluate students’ critical reading performance in relation to their participation in networked learning. Results highlight several optimal conditions, notably that it is not just participation of the learner that enhances critical thinking but the learners’ reciprocity in replying and the distance of those posts in the network. Discussions and implications of the findings follow to provide insightful understanding of how the rich and complex settings of networked learning can enhance critical thinking capacities in secondary schooling.

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Exploring Conditions for Enhancing Critical Thinking in Networked Learning: Findings from a Secondary School Learning Analytics Environment

Koh

Jonathan

Tan³

2019

Education Sciences

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“…Onlangse navorsing toon dat sosiogramme bruikbaar is om 'n verband tussen verbindings en akademiese prestasie te ondersoek (Morgan 2022). Daar is ook bevind dat sosiogramme die dinamiek van die kennisbouproses konsekwent en op 'n meetbare manier aantoon -wat 'n assesserings-, evaluerings-, diagnostiese en voorspellingswaarde aan sosiale-netwerk-analise toeskryf (Philip 2010;Van Staden 2012).…”

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Ekonomiese geskiedkundiges het deesdae die kwantitatiewe middele om "geskiedenisse van onder af" te ontsluit. Ons wil die vraag beantwoord: Wat gee gewone mense die vermoë om beter lewens te bou, en wat weerhou die vryheid om dit te doen van hulle? In hierdie skrywe gebruik ek my familiegeskiedenis om hierdie vraag te beantwoord. Terwyl ek my familie deur die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis volg, gebruik ek 'n verskeidenheid kwantitatiewe bronne: universiteitsrekords, sterftekennisgewings, kiesersrekords, rekords van maatskappye met beperkte aanspreeklikheid, attestasierekords, belastingrekords, boedelinventarisse, om net 'n paar te noem. Hierdie rekords help my om te bewys dat Suid-Afrika goed gedoen het om die eerste les uit die ekonomiese geskiedenis -dat ons wetenskap moet gebruik om ons meer produktief te maak -te leer. Ons het egter eers onlangs van die tweede les -dat die voordele van hierdie produktiwiteit nie net aan 'n elite moet behoort nie -bewus geword. Suid-Afrika se lang tog na ekonomiese vryheid is dus nog ver van klaar af. Ons ambisie gaan egter verder: ons wil nie net die lang pad na ekonomiese vryheid beskryf nie, maar dit uiteindelik ook bevorder. Solank ons die regte lesse uit die verlede leer, lyk die toekoms meer belowend.

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“…After completing introductions and an icebreaker activity, we asked students to complete a drawing (a sociogram) to depict the adults and other children in each household in which they lived. Sociograms are pictures created by students that have been successfully used with younger students for describing classroom social networks (Ferrandiz & Jimenez, 2011; Leung & Silberling, 2006; Philip, 2010). In the present study, we opted to use sociograms for two reasons: First, we wanted students to be able to describe the important members of their households as they themselves saw them, not as the researchers might define them, and second, we wanted an activity that would be both easy and fun for participants.…”

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Beyond Nuclear Families: Development of Inclusive Student Socioeconomic Status Survey Questions

Whorton¹,

Almonte²,

Steiger

et al. 2021

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Social changes have resulted in an increase of students living in households that do not include both a mother and a father, reducing the efficacy of common survey questionnaire approaches to measuring student socioeconomic status (SES). This paper presents two studies conducted to develop and test a new, more inclusive set of student SES items appropriate for students from a range of household types. In the first study, we held group interviews with 57 students in Grades 4, 8, and 12 who lived in four nontraditional household types. The study goal was, first, to understand how students thought about their household members and learn what they knew about the educational background and employment status of their caregivers and, second, to develop draft items based on these findings. In the second study, we held 51 individual cognitive interviews with a similar sample to evaluate draft item clarity and function. We found that although students may live with a broad range of family members and other adults, they understood the term caregiver to refer to a person who provides resources and support. Students found it easier to answer items when the items included the titles of their caregivers. Our results demonstrate that a customizable approach to measuring student SES allows more students to report information about their caregivers than the current standard of asking about mothers and fathers. We provide recommendations for student SES measurement and potential next steps for research on this topic.

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Social Network Analysis to Examine Interaction Patterns in Knowledge Building Communities

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Cited by 15 publications

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