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2015

Does Small-Size Class Improve Academic Abilities of Students?:―An Analysis by Agent-Based Approach―

Transactions of Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education
  • Yano Katsuhiro
  • ,
  • Kanazawa Atsuhiro
  • ,
  • Yamada Takashi
  • ,
  • Yoshikawa Atsushi
  • ,
  • Terano Takao

Volume
32
Number
4
First page
236
Last page
245
Language
Japanese
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.14926/jsise.32.236
Publisher
Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education

The aim of this study is to propose educational policies because it is ethically impossible for school education to implement empirical and experimental studies. For this purpose, we employ agent-based simulation to model academic skills of students. In the simulation model, we utilize three kinds of learning models, informational approach model, learning by teaching model and motivation for learning model, from learning theory in the literature, and then investigate how many teachers should be allocated to each school in order to improve academic abilities of students. Our main finding is twofold: First, any staffing decreases the abilities of the top 10%. Second, in contrast, the increase of those of the bottom 10% may depend on the staffing and it is in proportion to the number of teachers in elementary schools.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.14926/jsise.32.236
J-GLOBAL
https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/en/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201502214431980495
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/130005103759
CiNii Books
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/AN10474042
URL
http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/026796437
ID information
  • DOI : 10.14926/jsise.32.236
  • ISSN : 1341-4135
  • J-Global ID : 201502214431980495
  • CiNii Articles ID : 130005103759
  • CiNii Books ID : AN10474042
  • identifiers.cinii_nr_id : 9000245915146
  • ORCID - Put Code : 99086767

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