Analyzing K-12 education as a complex system

Pratik Mital; Roxanne Moore; Donna Llewellyn

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2014.03.046

Analyzing K-12 education as a complex system

Pratik Mital, Roxanne Moore, Donna Llewellyn

Institute for Inclusive and Transformative Scholarship

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Schools and school districts are complex, dynamic systems affected by numerous factors, from individuals' attributes to federal policies In this paper, a modeling framework is presented for modeling a school as a complex system An agent-based modeling strategy is developed such that users may better understand the attributes and relationships that may cause an intervention to succeed or fail The system state change, including agents' attributes and their relationships, is modeled as a Discrete Time Markov Chain (DTMC) The modeling framework is demonstrated through a case study of a high school where an 'Engineers Without Borders' chapter is founded

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	370-379
Number of pages	10
Journal	Procedia Computer Science
Volume	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.03.046
State	Published - 2014
Event	12th Annual Conference on SystemsEngineering Research, CSER 2014 - Redondo Beach, CA, United States Duration: 21 Mar 2014 → 22 Mar 2014

Keywords

Agent-based modeling
Education
K-12
School reform
Simulation

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