An Agent-Based Simulator Applied to Teaching-Learning Process to Predict Sociometric Indices in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	García-Magariño, Iván; Plaza, Inmaculada; Igual, Raúl; Lombas, Andrés S.; Jamali, Hana
Titel	An Agent-Based Simulator Applied to Teaching-Learning Process to Predict Sociometric Indices in Higher Education
Quelle	In: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 13 (2020) 2, S.246-258 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (García-Magariño, Iván) ORCID (Plaza, Inmaculada) ORCID (Igual, Raúl) ORCID (Lombas, Andrés S.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1939-1382
DOI	10.1109/TLT.2019.2910067
Schlagwörter	Computer Simulation; Group Unity; Teamwork; Group Dynamics; Sociometric Techniques; Educational Strategies; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Beginning Teachers; Experienced Teachers; Undergraduate Students; Cooperative Learning; Computer Uses in Education; Spain; Morocco + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Gruppenidentität; Gruppendynamik; Soziometrie; Lehrstrategie; Fakultät; Ausland; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Kooperatives Lernen; Computernutzung; Spanien; Marokko
Abstract	Most novice teachers and even some experienced teachers can lack appropriate tools for designing teaching strategies that ensure the quality of education. The ability of working in teams is crucial in educating professionals. The literature proves that social relations influence the performance of teams. For instance, the team cohesion is directly related with its performance. In this paper, we have developed an agent-based tool for assisting teachers in simulating their teaching strategies to estimate their influence on the group sociometrics like cohesion, coherence of reciprocal relations, dissociation, and density of relations. The experiments with nine scenarios in disciplines of computer science, electronic, psychology, business, tourism, and renewal energies with 239 students and 6 teachers including experienced and novice ones show that its underlying agent-based framework can adapt to different disciplines obtaining similar outcomes to the real ones. We learned that the tool was especially reliable in predicting the density of relations and the cohesion, being the latter one probably the most relevant due to its known relation with academic performance. In addition, we also learned that it was difficult to assess the prediction quality of the dissociation in higher education, due to the usual low amounts or absence of reciprocal rejections in the students' groups in this educational stage. The presented agent-based tool is publicly distributed as open source for facilitating other researchers in following this research line. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01