This presentation is prepared for DALMOOC and talks about the use of social network analysis for understanding and prediction of academic performance. The presentation is based on Gašević, D., Zouaq, A., Jenzen, R. (2013) 'Choose your Classmates, your GPA is at Stake!' The Association of Cross-Class Social Ties and Academic Performance. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1459-1478, http://www.sfu.ca/~dgasevic/papers_shared/abs2013.pdf

1. Social Network Analysis and
Academic Performance
Dragan Gašević
@dgasevic

2. Network brokers associated with
achievement and creativity
Burt, R. S., Kilduff, M., & Tasselli, S. (2013). Social network analysis: foundations and frontiers on advantage. Annual
review of psychology, 64, 527-547, http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ronald.burt/research/files/SNA.pdf

3. Is there the association between
network position and
academic performance?
Gašević, D., Zouaq, A., Jenzen, R. (2013) 'Choose your Classmates, your GPA is at Stake!' The Association of Cross-
Class Social Ties and Academic Performance. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1459-1478

4. Cross-class networks
Importance of weak ties
Granovetter, M. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360-1380.

5. Cross-class networks
Latent ties by attending the same events
Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Social network analysis: An approach and set of techniques for the study of
information exchange. Library and Information Science Research, 18(4), 323-342.

6. Method
Ten years of data
Cross-class networks based on enrollments
Grade average point as outcome
Covariates
Gašević, D., Zouaq, A., Jenzen, R. (2013) 'Choose your Classmates, your GPA is at Stake!' The Association of Cross-
Class Social Ties and Academic Performance. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1459-1478

7. Results

8. Implications
Importance of learning communities
Planning course enrolments
to build social connections
Balance of connections important