JEDM 2012 - JEDM SPECIAL ISSUE: "EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING ON MOTIVATION, META-COGNITION, AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNING"

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Call For Papers - CFP

MOTIVATION, META-COGNITION, AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNING

Guest Editors

Ryan S.J.d. Baker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (rsbakerwpi.edu)

Philip H. Winne, Simon Fraser University (winnesfu.ca)

Aim of Special Issue

We invite paper submissions for a special issue of the peer-reviewed

Journal of Educational Data Mining that focuses on using educational

data mining methods to advance basic and applied research on the

nature and roles of motivation, meta-cognition, and self-regulated

learning (SRL) in learning sciences. Increasingly, it is acknowledged

that SRL processes interact in key fashions with motivational and

meta-cognitive processes. We seek papers that use EDM to explore these

interactions, as well as papers that explore any of these three areas

in isolation or in relation to other important processes and

constructs.

Papers should apply accepted or novel educational data mining methods

in rigorous, demonstrably valid ways to study these topics. We are

interested to assemble a collection of articles that explore how new

methods for measurement and analysis that EDM affords enable new

discoveries in these areas. Because an important goal of this special

issue is to educate researchers who are not familiar with the power

and benefits of data mining, papers should be written in a style that

is simultaneously meaningful to experts in data mining, and

educational for those who are entirely new to these methods. Data can

be drawn from any educational source (e.g. interaction logs,

questionnaire instruments, field observations, video or text replays,

collaborative chats, discussion forums) so long as it supports valid

inference; simulated data is not admissible for this special issue.

All papers must make a contribution to research in the domain studied

and must give full detail on the educational data mining methods used

to derive these contributions; it is not necessary, however, that a

paper make innovations in educational data mining methods although

these are, of course, welcome (so long as they are valid).

Review Process

As stipulated by JEDM reviewing guidelines, each submission will be

peer-reviewed by three colleagues in the field, including both members

of the JEDM editorial board plus reviewers chosen specifically for

this issue.

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions of any length; see the JEDM submission

guidelines. All submissions can be made electronically via email to

Ryan S.J.d. Baker (rsbakerwpi.edu).

Deadlines

Please submit your manuscript by December 1, 2011. We plan a review

cycle of approximately three months so that you should receive

feedback and a decision by approximately March 1, 2012.

Please direct questions to the guest editors at rsbakerwpi.edu and

winnesfu.ca.