International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography Award Winners

ICQE 2025: Best Poster Nominees and Winner

Are Dining Reviews Conditioned by Cuisine? An analysis of Asian vs. American Restaurants
Thao Nguyen

Discourse Patterns in Virtual Team Conversations on Artificial Intelligence
Haille Trimboli

Constructing the Ideal College Graduate: A Comparative Epistemic Network of Commencement Speeches from Leading Chinese and U.S. Universities
Feifan Shan

Paraeducator Journeys in Mathematics (Winner)
Audrey Martínez-Gudapakkam and Sabrina De Los Santos

ICQE 2025: Best Student Paper Nominees and Winners

A Quantitative Ethnographic Analysis of Caregiver Competencies and Engagement in Augmented Reality Geriatric Simulation
Behdokht Kiafar, Salam Daher, Asif Ahmmed and Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

Demand-Resources in Doctoral Education: Mapping Pathways to Dropout Intention and Careers in Further Research
Jae Han, Shane Iveson and Zach Swiecki

Educators’ AI Journey: Developing AI Competencies in a Professional Development Program
Jiayu Cheng, Yu Gao, Xiner Liu, Amanda Barany and Bodong Chen

More Than Words: Evidencing Qualitative Findings Through Multimodal Narratives (Winner)
Yixin Cheng and Zachari Swieck

Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Trailblazing Trajectories in a Minecraft-Based Learning Environment (Winner)
Xiner Liu, Yiqiu Zhou, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Amanda Barany, Andres Felipe Zambrano, Zhanlan Wei, Ryan S. Baker and Camille Giordano

ICQE 2025: Best Paper Nominees and Winner

Subgroup Fairness in Multilingual Text Classification
Andrew Ruis, Zhiqiang Cai, and David Shaffer

Modeling and Measuring Sociocritical AI Literacies with Epistemic Network Analysis
Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, Atefeh Behboudi, and Alicia Lane

Nothing Left Untouched: Design Case Extending Code-Wise ENA to Model Effect of Memo-Medium on Coding
Mariah A. Knowles and Amanda Barany

Critical Quantitative Ethnography (CritQE): A Pathway Toward Convergence Research and Equity
Nichole Garcia, Adaurennaya Onyewuenyi, and David Shaffer

Embracing Mess: Reflection on how we engage with QE (Winner)
Danielle Espino and Adaurennaya Onyewuenyi

ICQE 2024: Best Poster Nominees and Winner

Empowering Excellence: A Dive into the Creative Minds of Black Girls through Epistemic Network Analysis
Monique Woodard and Yuna Dai

The Mental Health Impacts and Moderation Responsibility of Social Media Use for US and Non-US Adolescents
Jade Pratt, Abdulla Kamali, Shawn Purcell, and Lina Safa

An Epistemic Network Analysis of Patient-Reported Experiences with Cannabis Among Cancer Survivors
Apoorva Reddy, Youning Zhao, Matthew Lowe, Zhiqiang Cai, and Ryan Vandrey

Analyzing the Experiences of College Students in an Urban “Grow Your Own” Teacher Development Program
Angela Crumdy and Ruth Akumbu

Epistemic Network Analysis of Professional Supports of Women and LGBTQ Physicists (Winner)
Adrienne Traxler, Justin Gutzwa, Chase Hatcher, Madison Swirtz, Camila Amaral, Charles Henderson, and Ramón Barthelemy

ICQE 2024: Best Student Paper Nominees and Winner

Using LLM-based Filtering to Develop Reliable Coding Schemes for Rare Debugging Strategies
Aysa Xuemo Fan, Qianhui Liu, Luc Paquette, Juan Pinto

Strategies for Doctoral Students in Social Sciences and STEM Between China and U.S.
Tianshi Hao & Danielle Espino

Studying the Interplay of Self-Regulated Learning Cycles and Scaffolding Through Ordered Network Analysis Across Three Tutoring Systems (Winner)
Jiayi Zhang, Conrad Borchers, and Amanda Barany

ICQE 2024: Best Paper Nominees and Winner

How we Code Code: Leveraging GPT and Ordered Networks for Understanding Introductory Programming Education
Maciej Pankiewicz, Andres Felipe Zambrano, Amanda Barany, and Ryan S. Baker

Computer-Supported Code Discovery Utilizing Topic Modeling and Stepwise Coding
Ayano Ohsaki and Daisuke Kaneko

Making Sense of the Model: Interpreting Epistemic Networks and their Projection Space
Szilvia Zörgő, Dorottya Árva, Brendan Eagan

Como las mareas del océano: A Quantitative Ethnography of Caribbean Latino and Afro-Latino Identity and Education in El Norte de Philadelphia (Winner)
Amalia Dache, Jonathon Sun, and Dennis Espejo

ICQE 2023: Best Poster Nominees and Winner

Multimodality in Transactive Discourse: Integration of MmLA and SSNA
Jun Lu, Shunpei Yamaguchi, Jun Oshima, Shunsuke Saruwatari and Ritsuko Oshima

Integrating QE methods into a Qualitative workflow: Using Co-Occurrence Matrices and ENA in Code Selection
Jonathon Sun, Amalia Dache and Astrid Pickenpack

Exploring eye movements in virtual heritage environment with epistemic network analysis
Shen Ba and Xiao Hu

Understanding STEM Pathway Programs: Perspectives of Alumni and Faculty on Identity Exploration (Winner)
Mutuma Ichaba, Amanda Barany, Mark Petrovich, Monique Woodard, Mengqian Wu, William Lynch and Aroutis Foster

ICQE 2023: Best Student Paper Nominees and Winner

Using Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Flexibility and Development of Termite Fishing Techniques in Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti)
Tyler Andres-Bray, Amanda Barany and Mary Katherine Gonder

From nCoder to ChatGPT: From Automated Coding to Refining Human Coding
Andres Felipe Zambrano, Xiner Liu, Amanda Barany, Ryan S. Baker, Juhan Kim and Nidhi Nasiar

Investigating the Relationship Between Programming Experience and Debugging Behaviors in an Introductory Computer Science Course
Juan Pinto, Qianhui Liu, Luc Paquette, Yingbin Zhang and Aysa Fan

Approaches to Code Selection for Epistemic Networks (Winner)
Dorottya Árva, Anna Jeney, Diána Dunai, David Major, Annamária Cseh and Szilvia Zörgő

ICQE 2023: Best Paper Nominees and Winner

Thick Description of Thin Data: Modeling Socio-Environmental Problem-Solving Trajectories in Localized Land-Use Simulations
Andrew Ruis, Yuanru Tan, Jais Brohinsky, Binrui Yang, Yeyu Wang, Zhiqiang Cai and David Shaffer

Theory and tool-building for a science of dysfunctional political discourse
Eric Hamilton, Andrew Hurford and Marguerite Williamson

Teaching Quantitative Ethnography as Data Science Education: How Novices Learned in Using Epistemic Network Analysis
Ayano Ohsaki

Impact of Agent Language on Student Language in the Structures of Language Connections (Winner)
Haiying Li, Zhiqiang Cai, Grace Wang, Fanshuo Cheng and Cody Marquart

ICQE 2022: Best Poster

Edges in Epistemic Network Analysis (Winner)
Katherine Scheuer, Ejura Salihu and Apoorva Reddy

ICQE 2022: Best Student Paper

Ordered Network Analysis (Winner)
Yuanru Tan, Andrew Ruis, Cody Marquart, Zhiqiang Cai, Mariah Knowles and David Williamson Shaffer

ICQE 2022: Best paper

How Can We Co-Design Learning Analytics for Game-Based Assessment: ENA Analysis (Winner)
Yoon Jeon Kim, Jennifer Scianna and Mariah Knowles

ICQE 2022: Community Award

Mike Philips