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the Center for Connected Learning (CCL)
and Computer-Based Modeling
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affiliated with the departments of Learning Sciences and Computer Science
and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems at Northwestern University
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CCL Papers
In Press     Submitted     In Preparation     2009     2008     2007     2006     2005     2004     2003     2002     2001     2000     1999     1998     1997 and earlier

In Press

  • Blikstein, P., & Wilensky, U. (in press). MaterialSim: A constructionist agent-based modeling approach to engineering education. In M. J. Jacobson & P. Reimann, (Eds.), Designs for learning environments of the future: International perspectives from the learning sciences. New York: Springer.

  • Novak, M., Levy, S. T., & Wilensky, U. (in press). Playing in a particle sandbox and gaining a glass box perspective: The Connected Chemistry curriculum. The Science Teacher.

  • Wilensky, U., & Novak, M. (in press). Understanding evolution as an emergent process: learning with agent-based models of evolutionary dynamics. In R.S. Taylor & M. Ferrari (Eds.), Epistemology and Science Education: Understanding the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Controversy. New York: Routledge.

  • Wilensky, U., & Rand, W. (in press). An introduction to agent-based modeling: Modeling natural, social and engineered complex systems with NetLogo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Submitted

  • Abrahamson, D. (2009). Abduction and the learning paradox: The paradigmatic case of intensive quantities. Revised manuscript under review.

  • Gobert, J., Buckley, B., Dwyer, L., Horwitz, P., Levy, S. T., & Wilensky, U. (2009). Examining the relationship between students' epistemologies of models and conceptual learning in three science domains: Biology, physics, and chemistry. International Journal of Science Education. Manuscript submitted for publication.

  • Maroulis, S., & Wilensky, U. (2009). The conspiracy of organizational inertia: A complex systems perspective on school reform. Manuscript submitted for publication.

In Preparation

  • Crain, M., & Wilensky, U. (2009). Learning through computer-based modeling: A guide for teachers and parents. Manuscript in preparation.

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2008

  • Blikstein, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008). Implementing multi-agent modeling in the classroom: Lessons from empirical studies in undergraduate engineering education. In G. Kanselaar, J. van Merriënboer, P. Kirschner & T. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning Sciences,ICLS2008 (Vol. 3, pp. 266-273). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ISLS.

  • Blikstein, P., Abrahamson, D., & Wilensky, U. (2008, March). Groupwork as a complex adaptive system: A methodology to model, understand, and design classroom strategies for collaborative learning. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Education Research Association, New York, NY.

  • Blikstein, P., Abrahamson, D., & Wilensky, U. (2008). The classroom as a complex adaptive system: An agent-based framework to investigate students' emergent collective behaviors. In G. Kanselaar, J. van Merriënboer, P. Kirschner & T. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning Sciences, ICLS2008 (Vol. 3, pp. 312-313). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ISLS.

  • Goldstone, R. L., & Wilensky, U. (2008). Promoting transfer through complex systems principles. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 26(1), 465-516.

  • Levy, S. T., & Wilensky, U. (2008). Inventing a "mid-level" to make ends meet: Reasoning through the levels of complexity. Cognition and Instruction, 26(1), 1-47.

  • Maroulis, S., & Gomez, L. (2008). Does 'connectedness' matter? Evidence from a social network analysis of a small school reform. Teachers College Record, 110(9), 1901-1929.

  • Rand, W., Blikstein, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008). GoGoBot: Group collaboration, multi-agent modeling and robots. In L. Padgham, D. Parkes, J. Müller & S. Parsons (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS (Vol. 3, pp. 1717-1722). Richland, SC: International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

  • Russell, E., & Wilensky, U. (2008, May). Consuming spatial data in NetLogo using the GIS Extension. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group, Chicago, IL.

  • Sengupta, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008, March). Designing across ages: On the low-threshold-high-ceiling nature of NetLogo-based learning environments. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

  • Sengupta, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008, March). On the representational and epistemological affordances of NetLogo-based science curricula. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

  • Sengupta, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008). Learning activities as tools for formative assessment - Case study of a computational multi-agent based electricity curriculum (NIELS: NetLogo Investigations In Electromagnetism). In G. Kanselaar, J. van Merriëboer, P. Kirschner & T. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning Sciences, ICLS2008 (Vol. 3, pp. 383-391). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ISLS.

  • Sengupta, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008). On learning electricity in 7th grade with multi-agent based computational models (NIELS). In G. Kanselaar, J. van Merriëboer, P. Kirschner & T. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning Sciences, ICLS2008 (Vol. 3, pp. 123-125). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ISLS.

  • Sengupta, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008). On the learnability of electricity as a complex system. In G. Kanselaar, J. van Merriëboer, P. Kirschner & T. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference for the Learning Sciences, ICLS2008 (Vol. 3, pp. 258-264). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ISLS.

  • Stonedahl, F., Kornhauser, D., Russell, E., Brozefsky, C., Verreau, E., Tisue, S., & Wilensky, U. (2008, May). Tinkering with turtles: An overview of NetLogo's Extensions API. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group, Chicago, IL.

  • Stonedahl, F., Rand, W., & Wilensky, U. (2008, July). CrossNet: A framework for crossover with network-based chromosomal representations. Paper presented at the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Atlanta, GA.

  • Stonedahl, F., Rand, W., & Wilensky, U. (2008, May). Multi-agent learning with a distributed genetic algorithm: Exploring innovation diffusion on networks. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), Estoril, Portugal.

  • Wang, J., Dam, G., Yildrim, S., Rand, W., Wilensky, U., & Houk, J. C. (2008). Reciprocity between the cerebellum and the cerbral cortex: Nonlinear dynamics in microscopic modules. Complexity, 14(2), 29-45.

  • Wilkerson-Jerde, M., & Wilensky, U. (2008, March). Embedding environments as a mechanism for mathematical reasoning: An expert study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

  • Wilkerson-Jerde, M., & Wilensky, U. (2008). How do mathematicians learn mathematics? . In O. Figueras, J. L. Cortina, S. Alatorre, T. Rojano & A. Sepulveda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME-32 and PME-NA XXX (Vol. 4, pp. 409-416). Morelia, Mexico: PME.

  • Wilkerson-Jerde, M., Sengupta, P., & Wilensky, U. (2008). Perceptual supports for sense-making: A case study using multi-agent based computational learning environments. In G. Kanselaar, J. van Merriënboer, P. Kirschner & T. de Jong (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences, ICLS2008 (Vol. 3, pp. 151-152). Utrecht, The Netherlands: ISLS.

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Earlier work described in my thesis (and several previous papers) forms the theoretical backdrop for this project:

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