Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Studying Conceptual Change in Classrooms: Using Association Rule Mining to Detect Changes in Students’ Explanations of the Effects of Urban Planning and Social Policy” by Arthur Hjorth & Uri Wilensky.: This commentary responds to Hjorth and Wilensky’s article by providing more literature and conversations on three themes: the piecemeal view of knowledge, the difficulties of identifying causality in complex systems, and some considerations on applying computational methods to knowledge analysis.