quantitative ethnography | Research that puts ENA to work.

ENA refined an ethnography of socioemotional development in a learning community

Yotam Hod, Shir Katz, Brendan Eagan

Computers & Education

Researchers applied ENA to 1,170 Knowledge Forum notes from an 18-student graduate learning community. The networks distinguished four stages of group development, corroborated an earlier qualitative ethnography, and revealed additional socioemotional relationships.

quantitative ethnographysocioemotional learningknowledge building

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Photorealistic editorial photograph of researchers connecting coded excerpts to a transparent network model on a shared analysis table

Journal Article2016

Journal Article 08

The foundational ENA tutorial connected coded evidence, networks, and comparison

David Williamson Shaffer, Wesley Collier, A. R. Ruis

Journal of Learning Analytics

How researchers can identify, quantify, visualize, and compare patterns of association among a fixed set of coded elements. The tutorial shows that network structure can be compared directly and through summary statistics when the modeled associations have a defensible meaning in the source context. A worked method cannot validate the constructs, codes, conversation boundaries, sampling design, or causal interpretation supplied by a later analyst.

foundational tutorialdynamic networkscoded data

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