The deadline for submission of full and short papers to the CSPRED Workshop is extended through April 20th, 2010. If you have not submitted a paper and wish to take advantage of the deadline extension, please submit an abstract by April 15th, 2010. If you have already submitted a paper, you can still take advantage of the extension by submitting a revised draft.
*** Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)Workshop on Computer-Supported Peer Review in Education: Synergies with Intelligent Tutoring Systems
http://cspred.orgWe invite submissions to Computer-Supported Peer Review in Education (CSPRED), a workshop to be held in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2010). The workshop will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, on either June 14th or June 18th, 2010. Accepted submissions will be published in the ITS 2010 Workshop Proceedings.
We will put together a special issue of a journal on the basis of key submissions to the workshop. For submissions with a focus on peer review in the context of writing, there will be a special issue in partnership with the Journal of Writing Research.
[1] Introducing the Workshop [2] Important Dates [3] Submission Instructions [4] Workshop Chairs [5] Program Committee 1. Introducing the WorkshopComputer-supported peer review has recently attracted the attention of researchers as a technology and instructional activity that seems to bring many benefits to both students and educators, and in a wide variety of settings. Among many other uses, peer review may be used to enhance learning outcomes, to provide assessment in ill-structured domains, to enhance the feedback received by the students, to enable student content authoring, to study cognitive phenomena and to offer innovative educational opportunities.
The workshop seeks to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in computer-supported peer review in education. It will address issues of peer review research, theory, practice, and technology.
Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:* Intelligent and adaptive support for students giving and receiving reviews, and for instructors of courses that involve peer review * Assessment and student modeling of peer reviewers and authors, with or without a domain model * Data mining of peer review artifacts, including numeric ratings, free-form comments, and system logs * Scaling and porting: peer review with lots of learners, in cross-age, cross-cultural, or international settings, in distance learning, in informal learning, over long durations * User interfaces: eliciting quality student input, re-representing student input (e.g., organizing and summarizing reviews for authors), providing feedback, etc. * Causal and correlational relationships of peer review phenomena with outcomes of interest, including learning of subject matter and of skills, metacognition, affect, motivation, professionalization, etc. * Democratizing and decentralizing instruction through peer review technologies * Improving instructor awareness of student needs during peer review exercises * Increasing acceptance of peer review technology with students, educators and administrators
* Theoretical and empirical analysis of peer review processes* Best practices, pre-requisites and desiderata for peer review exercises, technology, and research methods * Domain-specific issues in peer review, including peer review across the curriculum, for well-defined and ill-defined domains and problems
Further announcements will be posted at <http://cspred.org>. Please address all inquiries to Ilya Goldin <goldin@xxxxxxxx>.
2. Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59pm Hawaii time. April 15, 2010: Abstracts due April 20, 2010: Submissions due May 10, 2010: Author notification May 24, 2010: Camera-ready copy due June 14 or 18, 2010: CSPRED Workshop June 14-18, 2010: ITS 2010 Conference 3. Submission InstructionsThe workshop welcomes papers on early as well as on mature research, including discussion of applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions.
* Full papers (8-10 pages): Original mature research results * Short papers (4 pages): Original ongoing research Submissions will be accepted via EasyChair: <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cspred2010> Papers should be formatted following the template for ITS 2010: <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0> 4. Workshop Chairs Ilya Goldin, University of Pittsburgh, USA Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Christian Schunn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA I-Han Hsiao, University of Pittsburgh, USA 5. Program CommitteeKwangsu Cho, University of Missouri, USA and Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Raquel M. Crespo García, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University, USA Louis Gomez, University of Pittsburgh, USA Evangelia Gouli, University of the Aegean and University of Athens, Greece Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jessica Masters, Boston College, USA Christine Neuwirth, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Niels Pinkwart, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Michael de Raadt, University of Southern Queensland, AustraliaChin-Chung Tsai, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
