Quantitative Indices of Student Social Media Engagement in Tertiary Education: A Systematic Review and a Taxonomy.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have evaluated the use of social media as learning aids in tertiary education. Emerging research in this area has focused primarily on non-quantitative approaches to student social media engagement. However, quantitative engagement outcomes may be extracted from student posts, comments, likes, and views. The goal of the present review was to provide a research-informed taxonomy of quantitative and behavior-based metrics of student social media engagement. We selected 75 empirical studies comprising a pooled sample of 11,605 tertiary education students. Included studies used social media for educational purposes and reported student social media engagement outcomes (source databases: PsycInfo and ERIC). We used independent raters and stringent interrater agreement and data ex

SUBMITTER: Tarifa-Rodriguez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10090751 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature