Measures, Programs and Applications
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Student self-report of academic engagement in the classroom (Connell & Wellborn; Furrer & Skinner, 2003)
Teacher-report of students' academic engagement in the classroom (Connell & Wellborn)
Networks 3.5 (self-extracting zip file) |
(Kindermann & Kwee, 1995) Self-extracting zip file. Best tested & free (but is clumsy; GWBASIC, and may not run in Vista without DosBox). Is limited to classroom size (~35 nominees). |
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This is a compiled Powerbasic program (it should run on Vista even without DosBox) and it is based on Networks 3.5). The output is quite similar. Features: - unlimited nominations/observations If you download/use this, a contribution would be welcome! (The compiler costs a little, but was needed for the unlimited space.) Contributions will be used to support students. Make check out to: Thomas Kindermann – PSU Gift Account. Give what seems reasonable, considering your situation, and send to: Dr. Thomas Kindermann |
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- This is a new java version of networks, programmed by Shawn Mehess, Portland State University (it should run on all platforms, Java 1.6 JRE or JDK is needed for W98) Features: - unlimited nominations/observations Notes For large networks, Netjaws can take more than an hour. The output is in .csv files; you will need MS Office 2007 or Open Office 3 to have more than 256 columns (nominees) available (older Office version will cut people off if there are more). Under “tools” below, there is a little co-occurrence viewer for large networks with more than 256 nominees. Networks and Netjaws are very similar, so much of the N6 information (above) applies also to Netjaws. |
Why would you use NETWORKS 3 or 6 or NETJAWS (and not UCINET)?
OTHER LINKS
SCM Analysis Program (Man-Chi Leung & Robert Cairns, UNC Chapel Hill)
NETWORKS TOOLS
| Net-Co-Occurrence Viewer | (Shawn Mehess, Portland State University, 2009 -This is a small text editor that can be helpful for viewing large matrices if you don't want to spend much time formatting in a wordprocessor (i.e., matrices larger than the xls limit of 256 columns, if you don’t have MS Office 2007). |
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- If you don’t want to run the entire Networks/Netjaws program but just need a co-occurrence matrix, e.g., for input to SPSS (not well tested, for use with Networks 6 input files). |
Network Visualizers
Agna http://www.freewebz.com/benta/agna/download.htm#top
Graphviz http://www.graphviz.org/
Socnetv http://socnetv.sourceforge.net/
James Moody’s network visualizations http://www.soc.duke.edu/~jmoody77/NetMovies/index.htm
The troublesome issue with drawing networks is how to re-arrange connections so that there is a minimum of cross-overs of connections between people. This works well if, when you move a person, all of his or her connections stretch or contract like rubber bands.
Although UCINET has a fine drawing tool, the patterns become re-arranged whenever you re-run a data set again. You can save a drawing as a .jpg, but then not edit connections any more (they are fixed).
We have used Aldus Intellidraw for a long time, but the program is not available any more since the mid 90’s when Aldus was acquired by Adobe (some old copies sometimes pop up on ebay or amazon).
Drawing Alternatives:
OpenOffice SDRAW: This program has rubber-band connectors like the ones that we liked so much in Intellidraw, and it is free. However, if you have Intellidraw graphs, they don’t transfer easily (copying as metafiles works, like with MSWord, but you cannot edit them further)
Serif DRAWPlus X2/ DRAWPlusX3: Seems to also have rubber-band connectors
MS Excel: Tjeert Olthoff (Free University Amsterdam) has found a way of how to use rubber-band connectors in Excel. Lovely if you don’t want to learn a new program!
For the (old) Mac world (before Mac’s went Linux): Intellidraw copies are more frequent in Mac versions on ebay or amazon;
OMNI Graffle should have the same features (according to Simon Baertschi, 2006)
OTHER PROGRAMS AND WEBSITES
SCM Analysis Program (Man-Chi Leung & Robert Cairns, UNC Chapel Hill)
NEGOPY & MULTINET: Bill Richard’s classics
UCINET: another classic