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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2020): UED Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education

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Dec 18, 2020
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Mar 22, 2021
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Jul 1, 2020

APPLYING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN RESEARCHING CLASSROOM CONNECTEDNESS AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

https://doi.org/10.47393/jshe.v10i2.910
Nguyen Bao Ngoc
ngocnb@nuce.edu.vn
Faculty of Construction Economics and Management, National University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam
Tran Phuong Nam
Faculty of Construction Economics and Management, National University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam
Le Hoai Nam
Faculty of Construction Economics and Management, National University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam

Corresponding Author(s) : Nguyen Bao Ngoc

ngocnb@nuce.edu.vn

UED Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Vol. 10 No. 2 (2020): UED Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education

Abstract

Connectedness in the classroom is something that has often been mentioned in researches, but it is difficult to imagine what it is specifically. One may wonder whether or not connectedness is related to students’ academic performance. With the use of Social Network Analysis, this article models and measures the connectedness among classmates and its association with their academic performance. The class under study is at the undergraduate level and the research results show that its members have fairly high adhesion and no significant dispersion. Combined with the calculation of Pearson's index (r) in SPSS, the article has arrived at findings which prove to be identical with those of many international studies: the connectedness and the centrality of a student do not correlate with his or her academic performance. The findings of this article not only provide suggestions for classroom organization and extracurricular activities but also reveal new research directions in the field of education in Vietnam via network thinking.

Keywords

Social network analysis Connectedness Classroom Academic performance Undergraduate
Nguyen Bao Ngoc, Tran Phuong Nam, & Le Hoai Nam. (2020). APPLYING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN RESEARCHING CLASSROOM CONNECTEDNESS AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL. UED Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, 10(2), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.47393/jshe.v10i2.910
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