Balancing Friendship and Exploration: Grouping Strategies and Their Impact on Classroom Dynamics

Resumen

This article studies how group formation strategies affect friendship, collaboration, and academic reputation networks in high school classrooms. Using MRQAP models, it shows that affinity-based teams tend to collaborate inwardly with existing friends, while randomly assigned teams encourage outward collaborative ties across groups.

Publicación
The Journal of Experimental Education
Javier Pulgar
Javier Pulgar
Departamento de Física, Universidad del Bío-Bío
Diego Ramirez
Diego Ramirez
Candidato a doctorado
Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Profesor Asociado, Instituto de Data Science, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Director de CRiSS-LAB.

Cristian Candia es científico social computacional y estudia el comportamiento humano y colectivo usando datos a gran escala, ciencia de redes, experimentos e inteligencia artificial.