Social network analysis (SNA) is gaining attention in evaluation, showing up in conference sessions and in recent volumes of New Directions for Evaluation and American Journal of Evaluation
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Concept Mapping is a method that creates a visual representation that illustrates the thoughts, ideas, or planned actions that arise from a group of stakeholders on a particular issue. Social Network Analysis is a method that likewise creates a visual representation of data; a network map typically represents people and the connections, or lack thereof, between these people. While the goals of these two methods differ, the underlying data structures are similar; a network of relationships between data elements. Social network analysis is explored here as a supplement to concept mapping. A secondary analysis of a concept map was conducted using social network analysis
McLinden AEA 2012 Session 346 concept maps as network data.pdf
These efforts were expected to stimulate growth and attract new researchers to the field, support innovative research, and foster collaborations among researchers. Social network analysis was used to examine growth in the number of researchers and collaboration among authors over the past ten years
2014 10 14_slides for aea.pdf
Despite exponential growth of charter schools and charter management organizations (CMOs), there is little research on how CMOs utilize social capital, the resources embedded in social systems (Daly & Finnigan, 2010). Using social network analysis (Cross, Borgatti, & Parker, 2002), this exploratory case study investigates how a CMO system employs resources to collaborate, use data, and share ideas for education reform
Charter Management Organizations and Charter.ppt
PowerPoint from demonstration session presented at 2001 AEA Conference, Extension Education TIG #outreach #mapping #networks #ExtensionEducationEvaluation #2010Conference #Extension #social network analysis #SocialNetworkAnalysis
Mapping Extensions Networks -- AEA 2010.pptx
An Illustration of Social Network Analysis in the Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Team Science
AEA-NIH-SNA_110511 v4 agoulnik1.pdf
As part of a collaborative mixed-method evaluation of Michigan's Integrated Improvement Initiatives and Center for Educational Networking (MI3-CEN), network analysis was used to characterize current patterns of collaboration in shared function areas among key network partners, and to identify...
AEA Presentation 2011 10-28-111.pptx
Methods included social network analysis to examine the contact, collaboration, and dissemination networks among state partners. - - - Presenters: Stephanie Herbers, Center for Tobacco Policy Research, Washington University; Nicole Kuiper, CDC Office on Smoking and Health; Martha Engstrom, CDC Office on Smoking and Health #Mixed-Methods #Cluster,Multi-SiteandMulti-LevelEval #2011Conference #SocialNetworkAnalysis #Tobacco
AEA TIG Presentation_BP2_eLibrary_11.8.11.pdf
Theories and tools from Social Network Analysis (SNA) serve to visualize the many vehicles and routes taken in building this community capacity
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How might the impacts of social networks transform grantmaking and program development?
AEA 2010 Evaluating Networks.ppt