School

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WHAT IS IT?

(This model is a rough simulation of a simple school experience that includes homework, in class listening, and quizzes and there is a graph to plot the average gpa of the students (patches))

HOW IT WORKS

(The patches are given a value representing their intelligence, work ethic, and attention span that affect their behavior, if they have low attention span and work ethic they do not prepare for the quizzes and therefor will not be as likely to pass the quiz, the gpa is comprised entirely of the students quiz grades, to keep the program diverse the students will become complacent if they pass a test and their work ethic and attention span will lower. To balance this, if a student fails a quiz they will not be satisfied and try harder next time and hopefully do better. This way a students gpa is likely to fluctuate and a student's stats(smartness,work ethic,attention span))

HOW TO USE IT

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Press the setup button to create the students
Press go to begin school
Lower the tick speed if you need to so you can get a better understanding of the data
If you desire, you can change the difficulty of they quizzes to see how the students respond and how their grades are affected)

THINGS TO NOTICE

(If you are sensitive to light it is advised that you lower the tick speed, higher tick speeds have been found to have a strobing effect)

THINGS TO TRY

(Change the difficulty )

EXTENDING THE MODEL

( You could try to add homework grades or change student responses to passing and failing quizzes)

NETLOGO FEATURES

(Ask patches; asks patches to do a task or answer a question. Variables; a trait that each individual patch can own. )

RELATED MODELS

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patches-own  [ work-ethic  attention-span  smartness score ]
;;work ethic and attention span make each patch's smartness fluctuate regularly so that the model stays interesting
;; score is the replacement for its grade, to compare to the player

to setup
clear-all
reset-ticks
  ask patches [ set pcolor blue ]
  ask patches [ set work-ethic random 100 ]      ;; chance they study/do homework
  ask patches [ set attention-span random 100 ] ;; what they learn from listening
  ask patches [ set smartness random 100    ]   ;; changes based off of doing homework and listening

tick
end 

to go

  ask patches [  if work-ethic > difficulty [ do-homework ] ]
  ask patches [ if attention-span > difficulty  [ listen-in-class ] ]
                                                         ;; if they are studious enough they'll do the homework and get smarter higher grade
  ask patches [ if work-ethic < difficulty [ be-lazy ] ]
  ask patches [ if attention-span < difficulty [ be-lazy ] ]
  ask patches [ take-quiz ]
  ask patches [ balance ]

tick
end 

to do-homework ;; patches procedure
  if smartness < 100 [ set  smartness smartness + 2 ]
  set pcolor pcolor + 1
  if attention-span < 100 [ set attention-span attention-span + 2 ]
end 

to listen-in-class
  if smartness < 100 [ set smartness smartness + 1 ]
  if work-ethic < 100  [ set work-ethic work-ethic + 1 ]
end 

to take-quiz
  if smartness < difficulty [ fail ]
  if smartness >= difficulty [ pass ]
end 

to fail
  set pcolor pcolor - 1
  if score > 4 [ set score score - 1 ]                 ;; grade suffers
  set work-ethic work-ethic + 1                        ;; student learns from their mistake and  tries harder next time
  set smartness smartness - 5                           ;; student is now behind the classmates who passed the test
end 

to pass
 set pcolor pcolor + 1
  if score <= 12 [ set score score + 4 ]               ;; higher gpa, no other benefits because that would be OP
  if score > 12 [ set score 16 ]
  set work-ethic work-ethic - 5                        ;; max score is 16 and the gpa is 1/4 of the score
  set attention-span attention-span - 5
  ;; student gets arrogant and works less hard(also its hard to have the program be interesting if the students only get smarter
end 

to be-lazy
  set pcolor pcolor  - 2
  if smartness > 12 [ set smartness smartness - 12 ]
end 

to balance
  if attention-span <= 0 [ set attention-span random 100  ]
  if smartness <= 0 [ set smartness random 100 ]
  if smartness < 50 [ set smartness smartness + 20 ]
  if work-ethic <= 0 [ set work-ethic random 100 ]
end

There is only one version of this model, created almost 6 years ago by Tillman Payne.

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