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Siete vo vzdelávaní : Možnosti využitia analýzy sociálnych sietí v pedagogickom výskume

Title in English Networks in education : Making use of social network analysis in educational research
Authors

LINTNER Tomáš

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Studia paedagogica
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://www.phil.muni.cz/journals/index.php/studia-paedagogica/article/view/2201/2134
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SP2020-3-6
Keywords social network analysis; SNA; complex networks; methodology in educational research; social network models; ERGM
Description With its wide range of applications, social network analysis has found its place in a number of scientific fields. In educational research, social network analysis has a potential to uncover and investigate yet unknown configurations of relations between actors in education. This paper provides an introduction to the problematics, techniques, and applications of social network analysis in educational research. It first introduces reader to basic terminology and concepts in social network analysis. On an example of a small network, it demonstrates basic network calculations at both the levels of the individual actors and the network as a whole. Furthermore, the paper provides a brief overview of studies in the field of educational research, which have employed social network analysis. On an example of a fictional classroom and five research questions, the main part of the paper demonstrates application of social network analysis in educational research ranging from cross-sectional descriptive analysis to dynamic inferential analysis. Step by step, it introduces a range of methods followed by interpretation of their results. Apart from centrality, clustering, and connectedness measures, the example contains permutation tests used for significance testing with network data, ERGM (exponential random graph models), and STERGM (separable temporal exponential graph models). Finally, the paper discusses challenges related to application of social network analysis.
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