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Patterson, M. S.; Prochnow, T.; Nelon, J. L.; Spadine, M. N.; Brown, S. E.; Lanning, B. A. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To use egocentric network analysis to understand how composition and structure of egonetworks relate to violence victimization among college students. Participants: 697 students from a large southeastern university completed online surveys. Methods: Hierarchical logistic regression analyses assessed the relationship between egocentric…
Descriptors: Violence, Victims, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Wang, Cheng; Butts, Carter T.; Hipp, John; Lakon, Cynthia M. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
The recent popularity of models that capture the dynamic coevolution of both network structure and behavior has driven the need for summary indices to assess the adequacy of these models to reproduce dynamic properties of scientific or practical importance. Whereas there are several existing indices for assessing the ability of the model to…
Descriptors: Models, Goodness of Fit, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software
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Perez-Encinas, Adriana; Rodriguez-Pomeda, Jesus – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2018
In this article, we analyze international students' perceptions of their needs when going abroad. The trend toward internationalization and the increase in mobility drives the agenda for globalization in many higher education institutions, and in some cases without any clear strategy for identifying the possible needs of international students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Student Mobility
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Cai, Zhiqiang; Eagan, Brendan; Dowell, Nia M.; Pennebaker, James W.; Shaffer, David W.; Graesser, Arthur C. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
This study investigates a possible way to analyze chat data from collaborative learning environments using epistemic network analysis and topic modeling. A 300-topic general topic model built from TASA (Touchstone Applied Science Associates) corpus was used in this study. 300 topic scores for each of the 15,670 utterances in our chat data were…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Network Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Computer Software
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Wright, Fiona; White, David; Hirst, Tony; Cann, Alan – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
The Visitors and Residents model of internet use suggests a continuum of modes of engagement with the online world, ranging from tool use to social spaces. In this paper, we examine evidence derived from a large cohort of students to assess whether this idea can be validated by experimental evidence. We find statistically significant differences…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, Models
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Peters-Burton, Erin E. – Science & Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to describe connections among students' views of nature of science in relation to the goals of a curriculum delivered in a unique setting, one where a researcher and two teachers collaborated to develop a course devoted to teaching students about how knowledge is built in science. Students proceeded through a cycle of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Science Curriculum
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Dooley, Lawrence; Kenny, Breda – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
This paper explores PhD students' perceptions of their entrepreneurial and commercial capabilities, their attitude towards university supports and the extent to which they engage in external collaboration. The study concentrated on current PhD researchers at one university in Ireland as a unit of analysis and provides encouraging evidence from the…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Doctoral Programs, Student Attitudes, Research Administration