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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…

physics.ed-ph2022★ 4 cited

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…

physics.ed-ph2022★ 1 cited

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…

physics.ed-ph2021★ 1 cited

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…

physics.ed-ph2020

Investigating how students collaborate to generate physics problems through structured tasks

Javier Pulgar, Alexis Spina, Carlos Ríos

Traditionally, scholars in physics education research pay attention to students solving well-structured learning activities, which provide restricted room for collaboration and ide…

physics.ed-ph2019★ 14 cited

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…

physics.ed-ph2019★ 4 cited

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…