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  • Educational Psychology
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Sociometry

Background:

  • Social learning enhances knowledge and skill acquisition in educational settings.
  • Peer-assisted learning (PAL) protocols exist, but the impact of social relationships on knowledge transfer is understudied.
  • Understanding social network structures is crucial for optimizing classroom learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how social network structure influences social learning in pupils.
  • To determine the role of social distance, closeness, status, and perceived intelligence in peer learning.
  • To provide empirical evidence for optimizing peer learning strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Combined social network analysis with an experimental social learning task.
  • Assessed knowledge transfer among 135 pupils (aged 11-19).
  • Measured network distance, subjective closeness, social status (centrality), and perceived smartness.

Main Results:

  • Social learning significantly decreased with increasing social network distance between peers.
  • Subjective closeness mediated the effect of network distance, with higher closeness enhancing learning.
  • Social information use increased with peer social status and perceived intelligence, independent of network distance.

Conclusions:

  • Social network attributes critically shape pupils' willingness to learn from peers.
  • Closeness, social status, and perceived intelligence are key factors in effective peer-assisted learning.
  • A social network approach can inform the design of more effective classroom learning environments.