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Magnets and Seekers: A Network Perspective on Academic Integration inside Two Residential Communities

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Residential learning communities aim to foster increased academic and social integration, ideally leading to greater student success. However, the concept of academic integration is often conceptualized and measured at the individual level, rather than the theoretically more consistent community level. Network analysis provides a paradigm and measures that are more appropriate for conceptualizing and measuring the academic integration that learning communities purport to foster. This mixed methods study focuses on two individual residential communities to examine student structural embeddedness as measured by their peer academic networks and described by participants. Results show that the learning community allows for some students to become academic “magnets” who attract others to work with them, which is related to higher GPA. The study has theoretical and practical implications for how institutions measure community-based results and design subsequent community-level programs.

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  • Rachel A. Smith, 2015. "Magnets and Seekers: A Network Perspective on Academic Integration inside Two Residential Communities," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 86(6), pages 893-922, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:86:y:2015:i:6:p:893-922
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2015.11777388
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    1. Rasoul Shafipour & Raiyan Abdul Baten & Md Kamrul Hasan & Gourab Ghoshal & Gonzalo Mateos & Mohammed Ehsan Hoque, 2018. "Buildup of speaking skills in an online learning community: a network-analytic exploration," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 4(1), pages 1-10, December.
    2. Qinwei Cao & Manqing Tan & Peng Xie & Jian Huang, 2022. "Can emerging economies take advantage of their population size to gain international academic recognition? Evidence from key universities in China," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(2), pages 927-957, February.

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