Volume 15, No 1, 2018
Personality-Based Simulation For Cooperative Learning Interactions
Vinchail A. Siason
Abstract
Agent-based simulation models are very useful tools to study and understand the interactions between members of a group or between various groups in a simulated environment. The agents, which are the members of the group make decisions and interrelate with each other. In this paper, the researcher used the aforementioned tool to investigate the interaction of students in a cooperative group with varied personality traits based on Galen’s temperament classification. A Cooperation Model is generated that simulates a scoring mechanism for different interactions between students in a group and consequently sums the scores to get a cooperation index. The indices are ranked to determine the optimum possible combination of students with various temperaments in a group for cooperative learning. The results suggest that a particular personality (phlegmatic) has a more favorable presence for a group to be successfully cooperating.
Pages: 148-153
Keywords: Cooperative learning, personality, computational modeling