| 2026 | LAK | AI Annotation Orchestration: Evaluating LLM Verifiers to Improve the Quality of LLM Annotations in Learning Analytics. | Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kirk Vanacore, Jinsook Lee, Zhuqian Zhou, Doug Pietrzak, Ren F. Kizilcec |
| 2025 | EDM | How Much Mastery is Enough Mastery? The Relationship between Mastery in a Lesson and the Performance on the Subsequent Lesson. | Jiayi Zhang, Kirk Vanacore, Ryan S. Baker, Nabil Ch, Caitlin Mills, Owen Henkel |
| 2025 | EDM | CausalEDM: Linking Innovations in Instructional Design and the Complex Behaviors that Underlie Learning Processes and Outcomes. | Kirk Vanacore, Anthony F. Botelho, Avery Closser, Adam Sales, Neil T. Heffernan |
| 2025 | EDM | The Half-Life of Epistemic Emotions: How Motivation Influences Affective Chronometry. | Andres Felipe Zambrano, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Ryan S. Baker, Kirk Vanacore, Jordan Esiason, Jessica Vandenberg |
| 2024 | LAK | Multiple Choice vs. Fill-In Problems: The Trade-off Between Scalability and Learning. | Ashish Gurung, Kirk Vanacore, Andrew A. McReynolds, Korinn S. Ostrow, Eamon Worden, Adam C. Sales, Neil T. Heffernan |
| 2024 | LAK | The Effect of Assistance on Gamers: Assessing The Impact of On-Demand Hints & Feedback Availability on Learning for Students Who Game the System. | Kirk Vanacore, Ashish Gurung, Adam Sales, Neil T. Heffernan |
| 2023 | EDM | Effective Evaluation of Online Learning Interventions with Surrogate Measures. | Ethan Prihar, Kirk Vanacore, Adam Sales, Neil T. Heffernan |
| 2023 | LAK | Impact of Non-Cognitive Interventions on Student Learning Behaviors and Outcomes: An analysis of seven large-scale experimental inventions. | Kirk Vanacore, Ashish Gurung, Andrew A. McReynolds, Allison S. Liu, Stacy T. Shaw, Neil T. Heffernan |
| 2021 | LAK | Longitudinal Clusters of Online Educator Portal Access: Connecting Educator Behavior to Student Outcomes. | Kirk Vanacore, Kevin Dieter, Lisa Hurwitz, Jamie Studwell |
| 2020 | EDM | Differential Responses to Personalized Learning Recommendations Revealed by Event-Related Analysis. | Kevin Dieter, Jamie Studwell, Kirk Vanacore |