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A Research On The Application Of Social Network Analysis In The Assessment Of Cooperative Learning

Posted on:2009-01-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360245467444Subject:Education Technology
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The Cooperative Learning appeared in the globalization of education, it is a new teaching theory and strategy frequently used to study the new things and to solve the new problems by group cooperation. The introduction of Cooperative Learning to fundamental curriculum reform has been a main direction of various countries'education reforms and develops. In the education and the teaching, how appraises student's cooperation ability, especially the interpersonal skills is count for much, the school and the teacher should give the high value.The author has found some problems on the Assessment of Cooperative Learning by theory analysis, combine with the knowledge of Social Network Analysis, proposed this paper's study issue——applies Social Network Analysis in the Assessment of Cooperative Learning, solves the problems and perfects the original appraisal methods.At first, found out the union spot of Assessment of Cooperative Learning and Social Network Analysis by combing massive literature material, and designed questionnaire to collect attitude data and relational data.Then selects the specific course to organize students to carry out the Cooperative Learning experiment, in the experimental process, observes student'study behavior and records them in the classroom observation forms. After the experiment, provides questionnaire to collect data and have a conversation with the teacher and individual student.Finally, processes the relational data with Social Network Analysis software Ucinet6.0, makes relevant analysis to the processing result and the attitude data, tries to find the relationship between them and use this analysis result to test the research hypothesis.The findings indicated the utilization of Social Network Analysis to appraise the student's cooperation ability is a scientific and effective method of analysis and evaluation, which makes the structure and the attribute clearer and more intuition, is advantageous to find the problems exist in the cooperation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cooperative Learning, Assessment of Cooperative Learning, Social Network Analysis
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