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 and Head of CRiSS-LAB, School of Engineering and School of Government, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile.
My research interests include applied AI, computational social science, network science, collective intelligence, school coexistence, decision intelligence, and business analytics.