Students’ Social Networks Can Predict Course Grades

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http://www.aabgu.org/media-center/news-releases/students-social-networks.html

I found this piece while filtering through the Eurekalert.org website.  It's from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and they analyzed networks between students.  I found the second to last paragraph the most interesting.  

“One explanation for what we discovered is that your friends influence your grade in the course, so, if you pick your friends well, then you will get a higher grade,” Fire says.  “Alternatively, social networks in courses offer conditions whereby good students will pair with other good students, and similarly weaker ones will pair with weaker students.”