ERIC Number: EJ1332933
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Publication Date: 2022-Apr
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The Constructive Overlap: A Study of Multiplex Ties in Students' Study-Related Networks and Academic Performance
Fjelkner-Pihl, Annika
Innovative Higher Education, v47 n2 p273-295 Apr 2022
This article adds to a growing body of literature on how various types of social relations can work synergistically to promote students' academic success. Students' study-related social networks affect academic outcome in higher education. The network literature in education generally explores students' various relations separately, rather than their multiplex relations or when "individuals share several relations." This approach risks missing the full complexity of the student experience. The aim of the present study is to add to the discussion on student social networks and attainment in higher education by further exploring multiplex relations maintained in a specific study program, in which a large share of students in the cohort commute. A survey was distributed to students in one cohort (n = 146). The findings revealed that, in this cohort, students' friendship, working and learning networks overlap substantially, and that centrality in the friendship and in the student multiplex networks was positively and significantly related to academic outcome, whereas centrality in the working and learning networks was not. Points for future research are suggested, and practical implications for those supporting student learning in higher education are discussed.
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Networks, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Educational Experience, Study Habits, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Friendship, Commuting Students, Peer Relationship, Learning Processes, College Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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