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Building Slightly More Complex Models: Calculators vs. STELLA |
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Diana M. Fisher |
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If students are to develop the potential to effectively manage ubiquitous complex systems, it is becoming increasing important to develop systems thinking concepts and model building skills formally at the pre-college level. This paper describes an experiment conducted in two secondary school classrooms in the Pacific northwestern United States to determine the importance of access to a relatively new modeling tool for students to enable them to successfully create and analyze simple models that are slight extensions of traditional models, as compared with using graphing calculators to build and analyze the same extended model scenarios. |
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Systems-Oriented Instruction for Preparing Students to Understand Complexity |
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Richard Randall Plate |
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Dissertation for Ph.D. This research presents systems-oriented instruction as a promising pedagogical tool for preparing students to understand complex social and ecological systems. A methodology is presented using cognitive mapping to evaluate how systems-oriented instruction affects the way students learn about complex systems. |
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Systems Thinking in the Classroom |
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Megan Hopper, & Krystyna A. Stave |
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This paper presents an analysis of systems thinking interventions in educational
settings. Although these interventions have been implemented in K-12
classrooms since the mid 1980s, there is still no clear definition of systems
thinking or identification of the best method to test the effectiveness of
interventions or methods for teaching systems thinking The goal of this paper is
to answer the question: how can we best assess the effectiveness of systems
thinking interventions in education? This question begs three sub questions: (1)
what is systems thinking, (2) what systems thinking interventions are being used
in education, and (3) how have the effect of interventions been measured? The
purpose of answering these questions was to propose methods for assessing
systems thinking interventions. The analysis of systems thinking interventions in
the classroom yielded an initial set of guidelines for measuring and raising a
person’s level of systems thinking. |
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America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis |
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Author(s):
Dan Sturtevant |
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The percentage of students earning Bachelors degrees in engineering is almost half what it was in 1985. This decline has occurred despite the fact that wages for engineering graduates are higher than those of any other degree-type. Unemployment for scientists and engineers has just hit a record low. What is being studied in this thesis is an apparent contradiction: people decreasingly willing to go into a field in which wages are extremely strong. |
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A Computer System Simulation of Student Performance in the Elementary Classroom |
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Nancy Roberts |
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Nancy Roberts did a study of student performance during her doctoral work in 1973. It was published in the September 1974 issue of Simulation & Gaming, vol.5: pp 265-290, and is still available online at the Simulation & Gaming journal site. |
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Link to the file: http://sag.sagepub.com/
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