EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING

The increase of e-learning resources such as interactive learning environments, learning management systems, intelligent tutoring systems, and hypermedia systems, as well as the establishment of state databases of student test scores, has created large repositories of data that can be explored to understand how students learn. The EDM conference focuses on data mining techniques for using these data to address important educational questions. The broad collection of research disciplines ensures cross fertilization of ideas, with the central questions of educational research serving as a unifying focus. This year’s conference includes short papers as a new submission category targeting original and unpublished research with merit in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation. In the paper track, we received 60 long and 20 short papers, each of which was reviewed b