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Physical Review Physics Education Research
written by Remy Dou and Justyna P. Zwolak
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Quantitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] The application of social network analysis (SNA) has recently grown prevalent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education research. Research on classroom networks has led to greater understandings of student persistence in physics majors, changes in their career-related beliefs (e.g., physics interest), and their academic success. In this paper, we aim to provide a practitioner's guide to carrying out research using SNA, including how to develop data collection instruments, setup protocols for gathering data, as well as identify network methodologies relevant to a wide range of research questions beyond what one might find in a typical primer. We illustrate these techniques using student anxiety data from active-learning physics classrooms. We explore the relationship between students' physics anxiety and the social networks they participate in throughout the course of a semester. We find that students' with greater numbers of outgoing interactions are more likely to experience decrease in anxiety even while we control for pre-anxiety, gender, and final course grade. We also explore the evolution of student networks and find that the second half of the semester is a critical period for participating in interactions associated with decreased physics anxiety. Our study further supports the benefits of dynamic group formation strategies that give students an opportunity to interact with as many peers as possible throughout a semester. To complement our guide to SNA in education research, we also provide a set of tools for other researchers to use this approach in their work--the SNA toolbox--that can be accessed on GitHub.
Physical Review Physics Education Research: Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 020105
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Classical Mechanics
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Education - Applied Research
- Active Learning
= Inquiry Learning
= Modeling
- Learning Environment
Education - Basic Research
- Assessment
= Longitudinal
= Methods
- Behavior
= Behavior Development
- Research Design & Methodology
= Data
= Evaluation
- Student Characteristics
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General Physics
- Physics Education Research
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10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020105
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Exchange Network Theory, PARS, Physics Anxiety Rating Scale, Social Network Analysis Toolkit, physics anxiety assessment, social constructionism
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R. Dou and J. Zwolak, , Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15 (2), 020105 (2019), WWW Document, (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020105).
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R. Dou and J. Zwolak, Practitioner’s guide to social network analysis: Examining physics anxiety in an active-learning setting, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15 (2), 020105 (2019), <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020105>.
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Dou, R., & Zwolak, J. (2019, July 3). Practitioner’s guide to social network analysis: Examining physics anxiety in an active-learning setting. Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 15(2), 020105. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020105
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Dou, Remy, and Justyna Zwolak. "Practitioner’s guide to social network analysis: Examining physics anxiety in an active-learning setting." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15, no. 2, (July 3, 2019): 020105, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020105 (accessed 13 December 2024).
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Dou, Remy, and Justyna Zwolak. "Practitioner’s guide to social network analysis: Examining physics anxiety in an active-learning setting." Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15.2 (2019): 020105. 13 Dec. 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.020105>.
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