Agent Based Model of Elementary School Group Learning - A Case Study

The paper described an agent-based model that simulate group work of elementary school children. It imitates students' characteristics and behaviours most frequently found in pedagogical literature about active and group learning. The model main objective is to forecast the change in the student's knowledge. We simulated and compared knowledge changes during individual learning and cooperative learning with different group composition. The observation of real students was carried out and compared to the outcomes of the simulations. The results are discussed in the context of improving the model by adding previously not included students' characteristics and behaviours.