Layered structure of advice-seeking across instructor, group, and cross-group ties in undergraduate physics laboratories
Accepted 19 October 2026
Abstract
A longitudinal study of 98 engineering students examines advice-seeking ties to instructors, within laboratory groups and across groups. Instructor and within-group ties are stronger, while cross-group ties are more numerous but weaker. Self-efficacy is associated with selective advice-seeking.
Type
Publication
Physical Review Physics Education Research (accepted)
Figure: Advice-seeking networks before and after the semester for four laboratory sessions. De Ruyt, Stari, Pulgar, Ramirez and Candia, accepted manuscript (2026), Figure 1.
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. Director of CRiSS-LAB.
Cristian Candia is a computational social scientist studying human and collective behavior with large-scale data, network science, experiments, and AI.