Research and Publications

Educational Data Mining, User Analytics

Botelho, A. F., Varatharaj, A.,Van Inwegen, E., and Heffernan, N. T. (2019). Refusing to Try: Characterizing Early Stopout on Student Assignments. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. [Full Paper]

Heffernan, N.T., Ostrow, K.S., Kelly, K., Selent, D., Van Inwegen, E., Xiong, X., Williams, J.J., (2016). The Future of Adaptive Learning: Does the Crowd Hold the Key? International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, vol 26 [Journal Paper]

Ostrow, K. S., Selent, D., Wang, Y., Van Inwegen, E., Heffernan, N. T., Williams, J. J., (2016). The Assessment of Learning Infrastructure (ALI): The Theory, Practice, and Scalability of Automated Assessment. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. [Full Paper]

Inventado, P. S., Scupelli, P., Van Inwegen, E., Ostrow, K., Heffernan, N. T., Ocumpaugh, J., Baker, R. S., Slater, S., Almeda, M. (2016). Hint Availability Slows Completion Times in Summer Work. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. [Short Paper]

Xiong, X., Zhao, S., Van Inwegen, E., & Beck, J. (2016). Going Deeper with Deep Knowledge Tracing. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. [Short Paper]

Van Inwegen, E., Adjei, S., Wang, Y., & Heffernan, N. (2015). Using partial credit and response history to model user knowledge. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Educational Data Mining. [Full paper - 36% acceptance rate]

Presentation Slides.

Van Inwegen, E., Wang, Y., Adjei, S., & Heffernan, N. (2015). The effect of distribution of predictions of user models. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Educational Data Mining. [Poster]

link to Google Sheet (allows one to explore the AUC, RMSE, etc calculator mentioned in the poster. Make your own copy to change numbers.)

Van Inwegen, E., Adjei, S., Wang, Y., & Heffernan, N. (2015). An analysis of the impact of action order on future performance: the fine-grain action model. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge. ACM. [Short Paper]

Physical Oceanography

Master's Thesis (while at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography)

E. VanInwegen, Air-Sea Scalar Flux Due to Wind-generated Near-surface Turbulent Eddies: The Eddy Renewal Model (2007)

Hara, T, E. VanInwegen, J. Wendelbo, C. S. Garbe, U. Schimpf, B. Jänhe, N. Frew. "Estimation of air-sea gas and heat fluxes from infrared imagery based on near surface turbulence models."Transport at the Air-Sea Interface (2007): 241-254.


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