[on behalf of Shashank Srikant]
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*ASSESS 2015: Data Mining for Educational Assessment and Feedback *
*ICDM 2015, Atlantic City, NJ, November 13, 2015*
*http://aspiringminds.com/assess/2015/*
<http://aspiringminds.com/assess/2015/>
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After organizing a very successful workshop last year at KDD, we are
pleased to announce the second workshop on Data Mining for Educational
Assessment and Feedback to be held at the International Conference on Data
Mining 2015. Last year's workshop had 6 paper presentations and 10 poster
presentations. The workshop brought together a total of 80 participants
including education psychologists, computer scientists and practitioners
under one roof and led to a thoughtful discussion. We hope to have a larger
reach-out and participation this year! *Click here
<http://aspiringminds.com/assess/2014> *to go through the accepted papers
and talk slides from last year.
*Call for papers*
We invite submission of papers describing innovative research on all
aspects of assessment of educational achievement and providing feedback.
Position papers and papers inducing discussion are strongly encouraged, but
should base themselves on fresh insight and/or new data. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
- Automated and semi-automated assessments of open-responses
- Assessment by crowdsourcing and peer-grading
- Automatic feedback generation
- Automatic problem (item) generation/design, calibration, modeling
- Assessment design, test blue-print, rubric design, validity and
reliability
- Test integrity, equity, proctoring and high-stake testing
- Non-cognitive assessments in personality, behavior, motivation, etc.
- New areas: gamification, simulation based assessments, etc.
- Insights derived by large scale assessment data towards learning,
recruitment, performance prediction, etc.
More information on the scope of the workshop can be read about on the
*workshop
webpage <http://aspiringminds.com/assess/2015>*.
Papers submitted should be original work and different from papers that
have been previously published. Submission to the workshop does not
preclude submission to other venues in future or in parallel. The authors
may publish the work submitted here or its extensions at other
avenues. Accepted
papers shall be included in the proceedings of ICDM 2015 and will be
provided a speaking slot at the workshop. Others would be invited to
present their work as posters.
*Important Dates*
*Paper submission deadline:* *July 20, 2015, 23:59 USA Eastern Standard
Time*
*Acceptance notification: *September 01, 2015
*Final paper due: *September 20, 2015
*Organizers*
- *Aditya Johri <http://mason.gmu.edu/~ajohri3/>*, Associate Professor,
Information Sciences & Tech, George Mason University.
- *Huzefa Rangwala <http://cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/>*, Associate Professor,
Computer Science & Engg., George Mason University.
- *Rishabh Singh <http://people.csail.mit.edu/rishabh/website/>*,
Researcher, Microsoft Research
- *Varun Aggarwal <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/varun-aggarwal/0/424/b74>*,
CTO, Aspiring Minds
For any queries or comments, please feel free to drop us a line at
*assess.2015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<assess.2015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>*
*http://aspiringminds.com/assess/2015/
<http://aspiringminds.com/assess/2015/>*
