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Grouping strategies change classroom collaboration
What recent physics education papers show about friendship, exploration, self-selection, and collaboration in classrooms.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on May 30, 2026
Autism, reciprocity, and classroom integration
A note on studying classroom social integration through cooperation, reciprocity, and network measures.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on May 30, 2026
UDD Government highlighted classroom reciprocity and autism research
UDD Government covered a CRiSS-LAB related study using experimental game theory and network analysis to understand social integration and reciprocity in elementary classrooms.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 2, 2026
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Interconnectedness in Education Systems
Education systems are webs of interconnected students, teachers, programs, institutions, and decisions. This chapter argues that a …
Cristian Candia
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Javier Pulgar
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Flavio Pinheiro
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What network science adds to education
A short essay on why education systems should be studied as networks of students, teachers, programs, and institutions.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on May 29, 2026
Autism shapes social integration and reciprocity in elementary classrooms
This study examines social dynamics in elementary classrooms using experimental game theory and social network analysis. Across 26 …
Patricia Soto-Icaza
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Melanie Oyarzún
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Tamara Yaikin
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Mirla Arcos-Polanco
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Cristian Candia
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Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert
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Pablo Billeke
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Balancing Friendship and Exploration: Grouping Strategies and Their Impact on Classroom Dynamics
This article studies how group formation strategies affect friendship, collaboration, and academic reputation networks in high school …
Javier Pulgar
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Morín Órdenes-Escobar
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Diego Ramirez
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Cristian Candia
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Game theory in the classroom: low cooperative relationships identify bullying patterns in elementary schools
This article uses experimental game theory and social network analysis to identify low-cooperation relationships associated with …
Victor Landaeta
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Cristian Candia
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Javier Pulgar
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Jorge Fábrega
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Jorge J. Varela
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Tamara Yaikin
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Cecilia Monge
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Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert
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Collective Intelligence at CRiSS-LAB
How CRiSS-LAB connects collective memory, online engagement, classroom cooperation, educational trajectories, and civic platforms through computational social science.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
Interventions and Pedagogical Decision Making in Science Classrooms: A Research Agenda using Social Network Analysis. [Virtual Talk]
Abstract: [ENG] Education professionals, researchers, and even most student would agree that learning and development in its largest sense are highly social processes.
Apr 14, 2023 12:00 PM
CRiSS-LAB, UDD, Las Condes, Chile.
Javier Pulgar
SocialRec and educational recommender systems
SocialRec explored how social networks, campus traces, machine learning, and privacy-preserving workflows can personalize higher education support.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
Disadvantaged students increase their academic performance through collective intelligence exposure in emergency remote learning due to COVID-19
This preprint analyzes 7,528 undergraduate students during emergency remote learning and studies how cooperative and consensus dynamics …
Cristian Candia
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Alejandra Maldonado
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Karla Lobos
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Fernando Peña
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Carola Bruna
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The higher education space: connecting degree programs from individuals’ choices
Data on the applicants’ revealed preferences when entering higher education is used as a proxy to build the Higher Education Space …
Cristian Candia
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Sara Encarnação
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Flavio Pinheiro
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