Hi All! We will be having an Educational Data Mining Workshop at AIEd this year. We have a full-day slot on Monday, so we are looking forward to lots of great papers and great discussions! Please consult the attached Call for Papers, and send me your submissions. Hope to see you there! Cecily P.S. Apologies for multiple postings.Title: Educational Data Mining Workshop-AIED 2007
Educational data mining techniques are now being used in ITS and AIED research
worldwide. For example, researchers have used educational data mining to:
However, these techniques could achieve greater use and bring wider benefits to the ITS and AIED communities. We need to develop standard data formats, so that researchers can more easily share data and conduct meta-analysis across tutoring systems, and we need to determine which data mining techniques are most appropriate for the specific features of educational data, and how these techniques can be used on a wide scale. The workshop will provide a forum to present preliminary but promising results that can advance our knowledge of how to appropriately conduct educational data mining and extend the field in new directions.
Aims of the Workshop
Topics
They include, but are not limited to:
Submissions
Please submit papers in single-spaced, single-column
form, using 10 point Times New Roman as the body text font. Submitted papers
should be no longer than 10 pages long, including figures. Shorter submissions
are fine. Submissions should be emailed to Cecily Heiner cecily@xxxxxxxxxxx in PDF format or DOC
format. Papers accepted to appear in the workshop proceedings will need to
follow the AIED formatting guidelines for workshop papers, following the IOS template used for the main conference.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers who will be asked to give constructive criticism in addition to providing overall ratings. Papers that are not clearly classified as accept or reject will be reviewed by an additional meta-reviewer. The review process will favor papers that describe studies based on data from real students using implemented systems, or which describe new tools and techniques that have led to concrete findings or improvements to new or existing tutoring systems. Papers should describe a research problem, position themselves relative to prior work, define an approach, present relevant results, and ideally present concrete evaluations of the approach?s success. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, clarity, validity, novelty, and potential significance.
Important Dates
Workshop Format
The workshop is expected to be a full day and
consist of three sessions with refereed papers. Each session will conclude with
a moderated group discussion. During the workshop, we will also a short session introducing the main themes and best papers from our sister workshops at User Modeling(UM) 2007 and ICALT 2007 and possibly other discussions and presentations.
Program Committee
Cecily Heiner, University of Utah, USA (co-chair)
Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA (co-chair)
Tiffany Barnes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA (co-chair)
Ivon Arroyo, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Ryan Baker, University of Nottingham, UK
Carole Beal, University of Southern California, USA
Joseph Beck, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Christophe Choquet, University of Maine, France
Rebecca Crowley, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Janice Gobert, The Concord Consortium, USA
Frank Linton, The Mitre Corporation, USA
Bruce M. McLaren, DFKI, Germany and CMU, USA
Agathe Merceron , AIDA, France
Jack Mostow, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, University of Edinburgh, UK
John Stamper, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Ron Stevens, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Kalina Yacef, University of Sydney, Australia