Over the last decades system dynamicists have experimented with approaches to achieve
more involvement of their clients in the model building process. As a result the number of …

In a world of accelerating change, educators, business leaders, environmentalists and
scholars are calling for the development of systems thinking to improve our ability to take …

Although “mental models” are of central importance to system dynamics research and
practice, the field has yet to develop an unambiguous and agreed upon definition of them …

Many in the system dynamics community argue that children are natural systems thinkers.
Here we study how middle school students and teachers think about everyday settings …

As systems become more complex, the roles involved in developing and managing such
systems also become more complex. Thus, there is increasing interest in educating and …

This paper deals with the representation of the conceptual structure of mental models of
dynamic systems (MMDS). Heretofore, this structure has not been consistently defined …

Participatory modeling engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create
formalized and shared representations of reality and has evolved into a field of study as well …

Abstract System dynamics models of organizational problems have been constructed since
the 1950s. In the second half of the 1970s publications began appearing on explicit …

This chapter introduces the intervention method that is the central topic of this research. The
intervention is part of a wider family of methods used to support decision making in complex …

Teams are an essential part of successful performance in learning and work environments.
Analysis‐constructed shared mental model (ACSMM) methodology is a set of techniques …