Balancing Friendship and Exploration: Grouping Strategies and Their Impact on Classroom Dynamics
Abstract
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.
Type
Publication
The Journal of Experimental Education
Javier Pulgar
Physics Department, Universidad del Bío Bío
Diego Ramirez
Ph.D. Candidate
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Head of CRiSS-LAB.
Cristian Candia studies how societies transform information into collective relevance through attention, memory, preferences, and coordination. His work combines computational social science, network science, AI, and large-scale behavioral data to understand how groups, institutions, and societies decide what matters.