scholarly journals Bifurcation and Hysteresis Effects in Student Performance: The Signature of Complexity and Chaos in Educational Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Stamovlasis
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Variables ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical ◽  
Performance Interpretation ◽  
Dynamical Hypothesis

This paper addresses some methodological issues concerning traditional linear approaches and shows the need for a paradigm shift in education research towards the Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDS) framework. It presents a quantitative piece of research aiming to test the nonlinear dynamical hypothesis in education. It applies catastrophe theory and demonstrates that students’ achievements in science education could be described by a cusp model, where two cognitive variables are implemented as controls - the logical thinking as the asymmetry and the field dependence/independence as the bifurcation respectively. The results support the nonlinear hypothesis by providing the empirical evidence for bifurcation and hysteresis effects in students’ performance. Interpretation of the model is provided and implications and fundamental epistemological issues are discussed.

Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Behaviour

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Huffaker ◽  
Marco Bittelli ◽  
Rodolfo Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Dynamic Behaviour ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ◽  
Logistic Map ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical ◽  
Deterministic Dynamic ◽  
Random Behavior ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
Equivalent Systems

In this chapter, we describe how highly erratic dynamic behavior can arise from a nonlinear logistic map, and how this apparently random behavior is governed by a surprising order. With this lesson in mind, we should not be overly surprised that highly erratic and random appearing observed data might also be generated by parsimonious deterministic dynamic systems. At a minimum, we contend that researchers should apply NLTS to test for this possibility. We also introduced tools to analyze dynamic behavior that form the foundation for NLTS. In particular, we have stressed the quite unexpected capability to achieve some form of predictability even with only one trajectory at hand. In subsequent chapters, we treat known nonlinear dynamical systems as unknown, and investigate how NLTS methods rely on a single solution (or multiple solutions) generated by them to reconstruct equivalent systems. This is a conventional approach in the literature for seeing how NLTS methods work since we know what needs to be reconstructed.

scholarly journals Analysis of Stochastic Generation and Shifts of Phantom Attractors in a Climate–Vegetation Dynamical Model

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1329
Author(s):  
Lev Ryashko ◽  
Dmitri V. Alexandrov ◽  
Irina Bashkirtseva
Keyword(s):  
Multiplicative Noise ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ◽  
Stochastic Theory ◽  
Slow Variable ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Mathematical Study ◽  
Stochastic Generation ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical ◽  
Additive And Multiplicative Noise ◽  
And Shifts

A problem of the noise-induced generation and shifts of phantom attractors in nonlinear dynamical systems is considered. On the basis of the model describing interaction of the climate and vegetation we study the probabilistic mechanisms of noise-induced systematic shifts in global temperature both upward (“warming”) and downward (“freezing”). These shifts are associated with changes in the area of Earth covered by vegetation. The mathematical study of these noise-induced phenomena is performed within the framework of the stochastic theory of phantom attractors in slow-fast systems. We give a theoretical description of stochastic generation and shifts of phantom attractors based on the method of freezing a slow variable and averaging a fast one. The probabilistic mechanisms of oppositely directed shifts caused by additive and multiplicative noise are discussed.

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