Using Social Network Analysis to Study How Collegial Interactions Can Augment Teacher Learning from External Professional Development

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Title: Using Social Network Analysis to Study How Collegial Interactions Can Augment Teacher Learning from External Professional Development
Abstract/Description: This article presents an analysis showing how collegial interactions can augment the mechanism of teachers’ learning from professional development. The analysis relies on social network data and self-reports of writing instructional practices from teachers in 20 different schools that were part of a longitudinal study of the National Writing Project’s partnership activities. The results indicate that both organized professional development and interactions with colleagues who gained instructional expertise from participating in prior professional development were associated with the extent to which teachers changed their writing processes instruction. Furthermore, the effects of professional development varied by teachers’ baseline practices. The study illustrates the potential for using data on teachers’ social networks to investigate indirect effects of professional development and the variation in professional development effects associated with different initial levels of expertise.
Author/creator: Penuel, William R.; Sun, Min; Frank, Kenneth A.; Gallagher, H. Alix
Date: 2012
In publication: American Journal of Education
Volume: 119
Issue: 1
Pages: 103-136
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0195-6744
DOI: 10.1086/667756
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (The University of Chicago Press Journals); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Citation: Penuel, W. R., Sun, M., Frank, K. A., & Gallagher, H. A. (2012). Using Social Network Analysis to Study How Collegial Interactions Can Augment Teacher Learning from External Professional Development. American Journal of Education, 119(1), 103–136. https://doi.org/10.1086/667756
Cited in: Critical Social Network Analysis as a Method for Examining How Power Mediates Improvement Efforts

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