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Affinity-Based Groups in Secondary Education: Increased Stability at the Expense of Collaboration
Diego Ramírez, Eugenio J. Guzman-Lavın, Javier Pulgar +1
Group configurations play a pivotal role in shaping social skills and learning outcomes by fostering student interaction and collaboration. Yet, the factors influencing group forma…
Long-term collaboration with strong friendship ties improves academic performance in remote and hybrid teaching modalities in high school physics
Javier Pulgar, Diego Ramírez, Abigail Umanzor +2
Collaboration among students is fundamental for knowledge building and competency development. Yet, the effectiveness of student collaboration depends on the extent that these inte…
Disadvantaged students increase their academic performance through collective intelligence exposure in emergency remote learning due to COVID 19
Cristian Candia, Alejandra Maldonado-Trapp, Karla Lobos +2
During the COVID-19 crisis, educational institutions worldwide shifted from face-to-face instruction to emergency remote teaching (ERT) modalities. In this forced and sudden transi…
Quantifying Collective Memories
Cristian Candia
Collective memory is a common representation of the past shared by a group of people that modulates its identity. Recent literature on computational social science quantifies colle…
Interconnectedness in Education Systems
Cristian Candia, Javier Pulgar, Flavio Pinheiro
Underlying complex systems, there is a rich web of interconnected components that determine the relational properties of the system. Yet, traditional methods used in education scie…
Student networks on online teaching due to COVID-19: Academic effects of strong friendship ties and perceived academic prestige in physics and mathematics courses
Javier Pulgar, Diego Ramírez, Abigail Umanzor +2
Collaboration among students is fundamental for knowledge building and competency development. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of student collaboration depends on the extent that th…
The rising of collective forgetting and cultural selectivity in inventors and physicists communities
Cristian Candia, Brian Uzzi
How long until this paper is forgotten? Collective forgetting is the process by which the attention received by cultural pieces decays as time passes. Recent work modeled this deca…
Scaling Behavior of Public Procurement Activity
António Curado, Bruno Damásio, Sara Encarnação +2
Public procurement refers to the purchase by public sector entities, such as government departments or local authorities, of Services, Goods, or Works. It accounts for a significan…
Citizens at the forefront of the constitutional debate: Participation determinants and emergent content in Chile
M. P. Raveau, J. P. Couyoumdjian, C. Fuentes-Bravo +2
In the past few decades, constitution-making processes have shifted from closed elite writing to incorporating democratic mechanisms. Yet, little is known about democratic particip…
Undergrad classroom cooperation and academic performance: Beneficial for real-world-like problems but detrimental for algebra-based problems
Javier Pulgar, Cristian Candia, Paul Leonardi
For several decades, scholars have studied cooperation and its outcomes in the educational context. Yet, we lack a complete understanding of how different instructional strategies…
Strategic reciprocity improves academic performance in public elementary school children
Cristian Candia, Víctor Landaeta-Torres, César A. Hidalgo +1
Social networks are pivotal for learning. Yet, we still lack a full understanding of the mechanisms connecting networks with learning outcomes. Here, we present the results of a la…
Physics problems and instructional strategies for developing social networks in university classrooms
Javier Pulgar, Carlos Rios, Cristian Candia
In this study, we explored the extent to which problems and instructional strategies affect social cohesion and interactions for information seeking in physics classrooms. Three se…
The Higher Education Space, Connecting Degree Programs from Individuals' Choices
Cristian Candia, Sara Encarnação, Flávio L. Pinheiro
Is it possible to derive organizing principles of higher education systems from the applicants' choices? Here we introduce the Higher Education Space (HES) as a way to describe the…