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Relationships & Capital In Living Learning Communities: A Social Network Analysis, Leslie Nicole Woltenberg

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

This study was designed to explore the possible connections between student peer relationships and individual students’ roles in a network as it pertained to outcomes such as self-reported academic achievement and personal satisfaction with the first year of college. The research question directing this inquiry is: How does a student’s role within a residential community of peers relate to success in college? Social network analysis was employed for examination of individual engagement within the context of a larger community.

The vast learning community literature tells an interesting story: 1.) a history of co-curricular peer learning environments, 2) a tradition of …