Awards

2024 Prof. Ram Kumar Educational Data Mining Test of Time Award:

Radek Pelánek, for his paper “Metrics for Evaluation of Student Models

Best paper awards

The winners of the EDM2025 Best paper award were:
Liang Tang and Nigel Bosch, for their paper “Human-crafted Features in Machine Learning  Increase Trust but Risk Over-reliance”

The winners of the EDM2025 Best short paper award were:
Seehee Park, Danielle Shariff, Mohammad Amin Samadi, Nia Nixon and Sidney D’Mello, for their paper “From Discourse to Dynamics: Understanding Team Interactions Through Temporally Sensitive NLP”

The winners of the EDM2025 Best poster paper award were:
Mark Kim, Shreyas Raghuraman, Arno Puder, Craig Hayward and Hui Yang, for their paper “Predicting Course Transferability Using Deep Embeddings and Traditional Classifiers”

Nominees

Full Papers:

  • Starting Seatwork Earlier as a Valid Measure of Student Engagement
    Ashish Gurung, Jionghao Lin, Zhongtian Huang, Conrad Borchers, Ryan Baker, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth Koedinger
  • Human-crafted Features in Machine Learning Increase Trust but Risk Over-reliance
    Liang Tang, Nigel Bosch
  • Analysis of Students’ Attempts Trajectories in Learning Programming
    Idir Saïdi, Nicolas Durand, Frédéric Flouvat
  • Fairness of Bayesian Knowledge Tracing for Math Learners of Different Reading Ability
    Frank Stinar, Haejin Lee, Clara Belitz, Nidhi Nasiar, Stephen Fancsali, Steve Ritter, Husni Almoubayyed, Ryan Baker, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Nigel Bosch
  • Nonstandard English and the Automated Scoring of Open-Ended Math Problems
    Abubakir Siedahmed, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Zelda Ferris, Dinesh Kodwani, Neil Heffernan, Eamon Worden

Short papers:

  • Toward Sufficient Statistical Power in Algorithmic Bias Assessment: A Test for ABROCA
    Conrad Borchers
  • Using Survival Analysis to Identify the Factors that Mitigate Attrition among Adult Learners with Low Literacy Skills in an ITS-based Literacy Program
    Genghu Shi, Shun Peng, Daphne Greenberg, Jan Frijters, Arthur Graesser
  • Math Content Readability, Student Reading Ability, and Behavior Associated with Gaming the System in Adaptive Learning Software
    Pranjli Khanna, Kaleb Mathieu, Kole Norberg, Husni Almoubayyed, Stephen Fancsali
  • Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Learning Analytics Dashboards: Do All Learners Benefit Equally?
    Aylin Ozturk, Robin Schmucker, Tom Mitchell, Alper Tolga Kumtepe
  • From Discourse to Dynamics: Understanding Team Interactions Through Temporally Sensitive NLP
    Seehee Park, Danielle Shariff, Mohammad Amin Samadi, Nia Nixon, Sidney D’Mello

Poster papers:

  • Predicting Course Transferability Using Deep Embeddings and Traditional Classifiers
    Mark Kim, Shreyas Raghuraman, Arno Puder, Craig Hayward, Hui Yang
  • On the Practicality of Differential Privacy for Knowledge Tracing
    Anika Kabir, Chandan Tankala, Daniel Lowd