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Classroom Model, Model Classroom: Computer-Supported Methodology for Investigating Collaborative-Learning Pedagogy

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Overview The paper has been exploring the potential of agent-based modeling methodology for social-science research and, specifically, for illuminating theoretical complementarities of cognitive and socio-constructivist conceptualizations of learning. The current study advances the research by applying methodology to pedagogy research: It investigates individual and social factors underlying outcomes of implementing collaborative-inquiry classroom practice. Using bifocal modeling, the paper juxtaposes agent-based simulations of collaborative problem solving with real-classroom data of students' collaboration in a demographically diverse middle-school mathematics classroom. It validates the computer model by comparing outcomes from running the simulation with outcomes of the real intervention.

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Publisher	Northwestern University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Learning Management Systems, Methodology

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