Data Mining and Learning Analytics

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Vincent Aleven, an associate professor in the Human–Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has 20 years of experience in research and development of educational software based on cognitive theory and self‐regulated learning theory, with a focus on K–12 mathematics. He has created effective nonprogrammer authoring tools for intelligent tutoring systems (http://ctat.pact.cs.cmu.edu). He and his colleagues and students have created tutors that support self‐regulated learning and collaborative learning and have even won seven best paper awards at international conferences. He has over 200 publications to his name and is the coeditor in chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. He has been a PI on 8 major research grants and co‐PI on 10 others.

Dennis Alonzo is a lecturer and applied statistician. He has been involved in various international and national research projects in a broad range of topics including student IT experiences, blended and online learning, and assessment. Also, he has received various scholarships from the Australian, Korean, and Philippine governments.

Alison L. Bailey is a professor of human development and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on the interdisciplinary development of language learning progressions for use in instruction and assessment with school‐age students. Her most recent book is Children’s Multilingual Development and Education: ...