Scripts for group model building

Scriptapedia: A Handbook of Scripts for Developing Structured Group Model Building Sessions

This paper describes a handbook of scripts—Scriptapedia—for developing structured group model building sessions. Andersen and Richardson (1997) have identified the importance of standardized protocols or “scripts” in group model building (GMB). GMB scripts have historically existed as undocumented structured small group exercises. Scriptapedia represents an effort to improve the practice of GMB...

Group Model Building

Group Theory for Unified Model Building

The results gathered here on simple Lie algebras have been selected with attention to the needs of unified model builders who study Yang—Mills theories based on simple, local-symmetry groups that contain as a subgroup the SU~’x U!’ x SU~symmetry of the standard theory of electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions. The major topics include, after a brief review of the standard model and its ...

Change in students' internal scripts for knowledge building: a challenge for capturing epistemic agency

The purpose of the study was to develop the assessment tool to capture learners’ epistemic agency (Scardamalia, 2002). By referring to studies on scripted cooperation, we developed the script completion task for pairs of elementary school students to engage in. Students’ developed scripts for collaboratively solving a socio-scientific problem in two consecutive lesson units were analyzed by the...

Group model building effectiveness: a review of assessment studies†

Jac A.M. Vennix received his Ph.D. from Nijmegen University and is currently full professor of research methodology at the Faculty of Management Sciences of Nijmegen University. He has conducted a large number of projects in a variety of organizations in the areas of system dynamics group model-building and (interactive) scenario construction. He has published a number of articles and books on ...