ERIC Number: ED607287
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Publication Date: 2020-Jul
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The Missing Metrics: Emerging Practices for Measuring Students' Relationships and Networks
Charania, Mahnaz; Fisher, Julia Freeland
Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation
Social capital describes students' access to, and ability to mobilize, relationships that help them further their potential and their goals. Just like skills and knowledge, relationships offer resources that drive access to opportunity. Most schools and programs wholeheartedly agree that relationships matter. But far fewer actually measure students' social capital. Oftentimes, relationships, valuable as they may be, are treated as inputs to learning and development rather than outcomes in their own right. In turn, schools routinely leave students' access to relationships and networks to chance. To address this gap, a host of early innovators across K-12, postsecondary, and workforce development are making important strides toward purposefully building and measuring students' social capital in an effort to expand access to opportunity. Drawing on those emerging practices, this paper offers a framework for measuring social capital grounded in both research and practice.
Descriptors: Social Capital, Networks, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Measurement Techniques, Research and Development, Labor Force Development
Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. 425 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA 94063. Tel: 650-887-0788; e-mail: info@christenseninstitute.org; Web site: http://www.christenseninstitute.org
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation
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