Electronic Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, February 15-18, 2007

Paper S076

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-55846-4, Copyright (C) 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Analyzing Asynchronous Student Discourse In Web-Assisted Undergraduate Mathematics Courses

David A. Thomas


Department of Mathematics
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844
USA


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Cynthia Thomas


College of Education
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844
USA

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ABSTRACT

Social Network Analysis (SNA) provides graph theoretic tools for investigating the structure of asynchronous student discourse in web-assisted and web-based mathematics courses. This paper provides an overview of SNA and examines the relationship of asynchronous student discourse to student achievement in three undergraduate mathematics courses.

Keyword(s): Internet