Student Networks and Academic Achievement: Methodological Lessons and Proposals from the Literature 2000-2015
(2016) 7th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World : IMCW2016 — Location: Vienna (10.October.2016)
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- Researchers use various quantitative and qualitative techniques in order to investigate the links between student networks and performance. Related to these questions, some methodological issues (e.g., the identification of relevant peers, the confounding of the selection and socialization effects …) have been identified. To the best of our knowledge, a literature review of these issues has yet to be done. The first objective is therefore the discussion of these principal methodological challenges. This discussion will lead to our second purpose, which is the proposition of a new longitudinal analysis process that would combine knowledge management and data mining. This dynamic process would address to some of the identified methodological challenges and would allow pursuing the question of how social networks influence academic achievement. The outcomes might lead to suitable politics of students’ grouping and this methodology might be used to predict other behaviors occurring in a network than academic achievement.
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Vignery, K. (2016). Student Networks and Academic Achievement: Methodological Lessons and Proposals from the Literature 2000-2015. 7th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World : IMCW2016, Vienna. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/169243