| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Oral Session B |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
The Aftermath of DrawEduMath: Vision Language Models Underperform with Struggling Students and Misdiagnose Errors (Li Lucy, Albert Zhang, Nathan Anderson, Ryan Knight, Kyle Lo) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues (Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
Measuring Optimal Challenge: Trajectory-Based Difficulty Alignment in Open-Ended Language Tutoring (Ziqi Shu, Shuman Wang, Michael Hardy) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 |
Findings of the BEA 2026 Shared Task on Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction for English Learners (Mariano Felice, Lucy Skidmore) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Sakura at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: What Makes Vocabulary Difficult? (Adam Nohejl, Xuanxin Wu, Yusuke Ide, Maria Riera Machin, Yi-Ning Chang) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Report on the BEA 2026 Shared Task on Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German (Sebastian Gombert, Zhifan Sun, Fabian Zehner, Jannik Lossjew, Tobias Wyrwich, Berrit Czinczel, David Bednorz, Sascha Bernholt, Knut Neumann, Ute Harms, Aiso Heinze, Hendrik Drachsler) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Oral Session C |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
EduMUSE: A Multimodal Educational Dataset with Automatically Extracted Instructional Context (Andreea Dutulescu, Stefan Ruseti, Mihai Dascalu, Danielle McNamara) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Confirming Correct, Missing the Rest: LLM Tutoring Agents Struggle Where Feedback Matters Most (Tahreem Yasir, Wenbo Li, Sam Gilson, Sutapa Tithi, Xiaoyi Tian, Tiffany Barnes) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Towards Just-in-Time Adaptive Feedback: Enhancing Student Learning via Knowledge-Grounded LLM (Younghun Lee, Amir Bralin, Nobel Sanjay Rebello, Dan Goldwasser) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Evaluating LLM Workflows for Generating Clinical Communication Assessment Items: A Comparative Study with Subject-Matter Experts (Christopher Runyon, Peter Baldwin, Ian Micir, Kevin Frome, Stephanie Mann, Saed Rezayi, Keelan Evanini, Victoria Yaneva) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Zero Shot Phonics: Evaluating Constraint-Adherent Phonics Story Generation in Large Language Models (Maria Monica Manlises, Ethel Ong) |
| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Evaluating Adaptive Personalization of Educational Readings with Simulated Learners (Ryan Woo, Anmol Rao, Aryan Keluskar, Yinong Chen) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break / Birds of a Feather |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Poster Session B |
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Investigating Context-aware CTC for Pronunciation Assessment: Mitigating Peaky Behavior and Context Independency Assumption (Jiun-Ting Li, Tien-Hong Lo, Bi-Cheng Yan, Shih-Hsuan Chiu, Fu-An Chao, Berlin Chen) |
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A Survey of Automated Presentation Coaching: Systems, Methods, and Open Challenges (Wen Liang, Li Siyan, Zackary Rackauckas, Julia Hirschberg) |
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Criterial Features in German: Towards Interpretable NLP in Readability Assessment (Denise Loefflad, Sofia Kathmann, Heiko Holz, Detmar Meurers) |
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RABIT: Rationale-Based Distillation Towards Interpretable Automatic Speaking Assessment via a Small Language Model (Bi-Cheng Yan, Hong-Yun Lin, Fu-An Chao, Jiun-Ting Li, Berlin Chen) |
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Challenges in Machine Translation of Interactive Multimodal Exercises (Lucie Polakova, Miroslav Hrabal, Věra Kloudová, Michal Novák, Mariia Anisimova, Martin Popel) |
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Towards Self-Referential Analytic Assessment: A Profile-Based Approach to L2 Writing Evaluation with LLMs (Stefano Banno, Kate Knill, Mark Gales) |
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Assessing the Quality and Consistency of Automated Knowledge Component Generation using Instructor-generated Questions and LLMs (Jordan Esiason, Priyanka Khare, Wookhee Min, Seung Lee, Gamze Ozogul, Xiaoying Zheng, Yeil Jeong) |
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Intent vs. Surface: Recovering Acoustic Realization from Modern ASR for Pronunciation Training (Seongjin Park) |
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Opportunities and Challenges of LLMs in Education: An NLP Perspective (Sowmya Vajjala, Bashar Alhafni, Stefano Banno, Kaushal Maurya, Ekaterina Kochmar) |
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Quality-Conditioned Agreement in Automated Short Answer Scoring: Mid-Range Degradation and the Impact of Task-Specific Adaptation (Abigail Gurin Schleifer, Moriah Ariely, Beata Beigman Klebanov, Asaf Salman, Giora Alexandron) |
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Using LLMs for item creation: Validating the potential of automatically generated sentence repetition test items for language assessment (Sarah Löber, Björn Rudzewitz, Yuan Chu, Mengyuan He, Shiqin Liu, Yushan Ye, Xiaobin Chen) |
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FinnGEC: Benchmarking Grammatical Error Correction for Finnish (Anh-Duc Vu, Mikhail Zolotilin, Jue Hou, Anisia Katinskaia, Yiheng Wu, Roman Yangarber) |
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From Metrics to Meaning: Rule-Grounded LLM Explanations for Data Literacy in the Case of Youth Football (Tomasz Piłka, Tomasz Kuczyński, Mateusz Czajka) |
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Classification of Student Struggle in Mathematics (Hannah Levin, Madhura Padwal, Nchimunya Mwiinga) |
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Data-lean fine-tuning of models for evaluating teacher performance in a GenAI-led elicitation simulation (Beata Beigman Klebanov, Andrew Hoang, Jamie Mikeska, Benny Longwill, Sanjna Kashyap, Shreyashi Halder, Aakanksha Bhatia) |
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Multi-component student writing profiles for expert-aligned automated evaluation of English learner essays. (Russell Moore, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery) |
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Noise Steering for Controlled Text Generation: Improving Diversity and Reading-Level Fidelity in Arabic Educational Story Generation (Haziq Khalid, Salsabeel Shapsough, Imran Zualkernan) |
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Rubrics as Semantic Subspaces: A Unified Approach to Rubric-based Constructed Response Scoring across Short Answers and Essays (Sebastian Gombert, Sonja Hahn, Nico Andersen, Leon Camus, Zhifan Sun, Ngoc Nhu Hao Nguyen, Fabian Zehner, Longwei Cong, Alexander Mehler, Hendrik Drachsler) |
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PeerMathDial: A Middle School Dialogue Dataset for Student Collaborative Math Problem Solving (Murong Yue, Desmond Mcglone, Emily Slutz, Wenhan Lyu, Yixuan Zhang, Jennifer Suh, Ziyu Yao) |
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Evaluating LLM-Generated Formative Feedback for Undergraduate Mathematics Through the Lens of Feedback Theory (Aron Gohr, Marie-Amelie Lawn, Kevin Gao, Inigo Serjeant, Stephen Heslip) |
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Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring for Algorithm Tracing and Problem-Solving in AI Education (Mragisha Jain, Tirth Bhatt, Griffin Pitts, Aum Pandya, Peter Brusilovsky, Narges Norouzi, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Bita Akram) |
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Edit-level Majority Voting Mitigates Over-Correction in LLM-based Grammatical Error Correction (Takumi Goto, Yusuke Sakai, Taro Watanabe) |
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Toward Cross-Domain Automated Feedback: A Comparative Evaluation of Open-Source Models across Diverse Student Assessment Types (Muhammad Haseeb, Min Paing Hmue, Ahmad Imam Amjad, Maaz Amjad, Victor Sheng) |
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AIDA at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: A Two-Stage Framework for L1-Aware Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction with Representation Diversity and Residual Calibration (Seok Hyeon Cho, JunHyeok Choi, Sangeun Ji, Sung Won Han) |
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BoostedCats at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: What Makes a Word Hard to Learn? Modeling L1 Influence on English Vocabulary Difficulty (Jonas Mayer Martins, Zhuojing Huang, Aaricia Herygers, Lisa Beinborn) |
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uogal at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: Ensemble of Multilingual Encoders with NMT Augmentation for L1-Aware Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction (bernardo stearns, John P. McCrae, Thomas Gaillat, Jefkine Kafunah) |
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IWM-DKM at BEA 2026 Shared Task 2: Supplementing Supervised Fine-Tuning for Rubric-Based Short Answer Scoring (Kate Belcher, Marius De Kuthy Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Detmar Meurers) |
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RETUYT-INCO at BEA 2026 Shared Task 2: Meta-prompting in Rubric-based Scoring for German (Ignacio Sastre, Ignacio Remersaro, Facundo Díaz, Nicolás De Horta, Luis Chiruzzo, Aiala Rosá, Santiago Góngora) |
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UOL@IDEM at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: Neural Fusion and Feature-Rich Modeling for L1-Aware Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction (Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:45 |
Panel
Transitioning from Academia to the EdTech Industry
(Christine Bagarino, Kai North, Keelan Evanini, Mariano Felice) |
| 16:45 - 17:15 |
Oral Session D |
| 16:45 - 17:00 |
Incentives Of EdTech: A Systematic Review Of EduNLP Research (Gabrielle Gaudeau, Aoife O’Driscoll, Jasper Degraeuwe, Andrew Caines, Donya Rooein, Zeerak Talat) |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
Effects of Varying LLM Access on Essay Writing Behavior (Julia Christenson, Karin de Langis, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Dongyeop Kang) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Closing Remarks |