Application of knowledge about social network in creation of study groups

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v3i7.1979

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Jana Makysova
University of Zilina, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, Zilina, 8215/1, Slovakia
Juraj Dubovec
University of Zilina, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, Zilina, 8215/1, Slovakia

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This contribution describes how friendships and student groups in certain courses affect their academic progress. The understanding of the social network between students and its impact on their academic progress is important by forming study courses. The goal of this work was the qualification of the 1st grade FRI (Faculty of management science and informatics) student social network parameters in the study program – Informatics. On the base of information from the actual students correlations in the social network were formed. To each tops the coefficients of academic progress were added, representing the number of success exams in the winter semester. Then study averages were compared to the students friends study averages and according to these results were these information evaluated.

Keywords: Social network, students, friendship, coefficient of friendship, fruitfulness of student.

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Makysova, J., & Dubovec, J. (2017). Application of knowledge about social network in creation of study groups. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(7), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v3i7.1979 (Original work published July 20, 2017)
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Vol. 3 No. 7 (2016): Selected Papers of 6th World Conference on Educational Technology (WCTER-2016)
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