剖析代理人模型在教育研究領域的應用

The Investigation on the Application of Agent Based Modeling on Educational Research

代理人模型是計算社會科學領域中一項新興的分析技術，雖然該分析技術早在上個世紀40年代就已經出現，但隨著對社會現象乃至於公共政策效果預測的需求，代理人模型在進入21世紀獲得社會科學界的高度重視，以芝加哥大學為首的多個社會科學領域的研究中心，紛紛以代理人模型作為開展社會科學研究的工具。隨著越來越多社會運行數據資料的開放使用，代理人模型得以走出單純的實驗室模擬而與真實世界進行更貼近的整合運用。本文旨在介紹代理人模型的原理、在社會科學領域應用的實例，並舉教育為例具體說明執行代理人模型的過程，最後為我國社會科學領域的發展提出建議。

Agent based modeling is an advanced data analysis technique in computational sociology. Although this technique first appeared in the 1940s, it just got attention in social science and public policy evaluation very recently. Many social science researchers in a few leading social science research centers, like the University of Chicago, have devoted their efforts to apply agent-based modeling to investigate social environments and society. With more public data becoming accessible, agent-based modeling is now not only used for simulations in the lab; it is also being integrated with the real world, yielding results that can reflect the evolution of reality. Against this backdrop, this paper aims to introduce the basic concepts of agent-based modeling and the application of agent-based modeling in social science research. This paper also uses education as an example to demonstrate how to conduct an agent-based modeling study. This paper concludes with some suggestions for the social science researchers in Taiwan.