ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 2600

Affect and Learning

Papers explore the affective and emotional dimensions of learning, from elementary students' embodied, lived experiences with data to configuring emotions while studying Japanese American forced incarceration. The session also addresses meta-affective goals that activate self-regulated learning and the role of affect in experts' attention to student thinking.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3600

Embodied Mathematics and Science

These talks investigate how the body supports learning in mathematics and science, examining gesture and materiality in mechanistic explanations and how children's gestures reveal their conceptions of fractions. Other work pairs coordination class theory with fNIRS neuroimaging and aligns visual-first, embodied pedagogies to teach abstract statistical models.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

4 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Assessment in STEM education

Six short papers tackle STEM assessment, from evaluating the MathByExample worked-example intervention to object detection for analyzing students' drawn scientific models. Topics include NGSS-aligned assessments of first graders' reasoning, conversation-based assessment with AI agents, STEAM integration measures, and fine-grained scoring in chemistry.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

6 talks

4:15 PM

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Poster · Online

ICLS Virtual Posters - Virtual Poster Session

A virtual poster session covering a wide range of learning-sciences topics, including making and aesthetics, computational thinking and creative coding, and culturally responsive STEAM across international contexts. Studies also examine generative-AI policies and student-LLM reasoning, field trips, and physics teacher professional development.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

70 talks

Poster · Outdoors

ICLS Posters - Wednesday Poster Session (In-Person)

An in-person poster session spanning equity-oriented learning across STEM, computing, and the arts, with threads on multilingual and culturally responsive teaching, integrated STEM+C and AI literacy, and teacher learning in makerspaces and curricular customization. Settings range from family garden activities and afterschool math to climate-change pedagogy and preservice teacher preparation.

Early Childhood & Elementary Learning in a talk

93 talks