WA 2016 - International Workshop on Writing Analytics, Data Mining, and Writing Studies

Writing Analytics, Data Mining, & Writing Studies, a preconference workshop at EDM 2016, aims to generate cross-disciplinary research among writing program directors and faculty, computational linguists, computer scientists, and educational measurement specialists. The primary goal of this workshop is to facilitate a research community around the topic of large-scale data analysis with a particular focus on writing studies, data mining, and analytics.
The workshop
aims to generate cross-disciplinary research among writing program directors and faculty, computational linguists, computer scientists, and educational measurement specialists
questions ways writing analytics and data mining can be used to improve on existing methods for responding to and assessing student writing
invites researchers in the domains of data mining, writing analytics, and writing studies to engage in a creative interdisciplinary exploration of how digitally based writing analytics might improve students’ cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies as writers, and also provide new analytic tools for assessing this improvement
invites participants to brainstorm about ways analytics can improve document critique, peer review, and writing program assessment.