Theme

Theme

This workshop aims to facilitate discussion and engagement among the Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) community regarding AI-assisted individualized learning tools to improve middle school math teaching and tutoring. In particular, the workshop hosts updates on progress, findings, and challenges to AI-supported, personalized instruction. We invite empirical and theoretical papers aligned with the theme particularly (but not exclusively) within the following areas of research and application:

• AI-assisted and Human Tutoring Systems: Insight into better understanding and supporting human, AI-assisted, and interactive learning technologies related to individualized instruction

• Delivery and Scale: Efficacy of different human tutoring delivery systems (e.g., video, audio, chat) and the corresponding needed differentiated support; Different models for scaling including peer tutoring, computer tutoring, etc.; Scaling across different contexts and localities

• Training Development: Tutor/teacher training development that recognizes diverse experiences and backgrounds, in relation to AI-assisted tutoring support structures; evaluation of training efficacy

• Equity and Inclusion: Issues facing equity and inclusion, with a focus on intelligent techniques to support students from under-resourced communities 

• Ethics: Privacy and transparency of intelligent techniques, such as using federated machine learning and explainable AI to examine data ownership and human-AI collaboration; Transferability and fairness of predictive models across contexts

• Evaluation: Program evaluation, such as applications using large-language models or dataset development for reinforcement learning of models; Methods of measuring student growth, with possible insights into dosage; Evidence of learning outcomes

• Key Challenges: Barriers, considerations, and challenges to providing human and AI-based tutoring and individualized instruction at scale

• Interoperability: How do AI and human tutoring systems interact with existing technological and social systems?