ISLS 2026 Agenda

Tuesday, June 16 · 11 sessions

8:00 AM

1 option

Pre-Con. Workshop · ALP

Pre-Conference Workshops - Half Day

Half-day pre-conference workshops centered on AI's impact across CSCL and learning sciences research, alongside career sessions and the doctoral consortium. Threads include rethinking assessment in the generative AI era, co-designing AI for collaboration and agency, building a shared CSCL taxonomy, and hands-on interaction network analysis (HINA).

Assessment, Feedback & Formative Practices in a talk

11 talks

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Learning processes in Higher education

Short papers on learning processes in higher education, spanning engineering improvisation under uncertainty, support for first-generation biology students, and curiosity and metacognition in productive failure. Others examine primary source projects in undergraduate math and fair measurement of metacognitive regulation in online STEM.

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5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 1600

Teacher Learning and Technology

Long papers on how technology supports teaching and assessment, with attention to multilingual learners and analytics. Topics include AI scaffolds for multilingual science inquiry, a four-step formative assessment cycle, flexible primary-language use in EdTech, and a temporal learning-engagement analytics framework.

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4 talks

Long Paper · ALP 2100

Knowledge Advancement

Long papers advancing methods and theory for collaborative knowledge building and convergence. Contributions include transitional spaces between group and individual learning, NLP-based semantic analysis of discourse, multimodal reflective assessment of socio-emotional interaction, and quantifying convergence via word-abstractness change detection.

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4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2200

AI Human Interaction

Short papers on how learners interact with AI across higher education and accessible STEM contexts. Topics include student-AI relationships and shared agency, generative AI for design iteration, accessible games for blind and low-vision learners, and AI-enabled dialogic leadership training.

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5 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2500

Support for Collaborative Learning

Short papers on tools and designs that scaffold collaborative learning, with a strong emphasis on self- and socially-shared regulation. Approaches include TA awareness of pre-class reports, game-based simulations like MetaSim, generative-AI chatbots and the MIRACLE multi-agent system, plus a scoping review of AI-supported knowledge creation.

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5 talks

Long Paper · ALP 3610

Dialogue and Collaboration

Papers on dialogue and collaboration across varied settings, including relational attunement in making, medical students shifting from cooperation to true collaboration, and parents revoicing to guide children's computational thinking. Further talks examine how language shapes access to tools and how productive confusion unfolds during VR collaboration.

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5 talks

4:30 PM

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Long Paper · ALP 1100

Analyzing Student Explanations

Researchers analyze how students articulate and develop their reasoning across science and math, drawing on knowledge-in-pieces and responsive teaching to trace intuitive resources in electromagnetism and evolution. The session also covers participation in optional self-explanation tasks and NGSS-aligned formative assessments that make first graders' life-science reasoning visible.

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4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 1110

Co-design, Teachers, RRP

Short papers on co-design, teachers, and research-practice partnerships, including environmental engineering curriculum co-design, teacher-developed critical-thinking assessments, and curricular co-design as professional development. Further talks examine teacher-researcher thought partnership, translanguaging in teacher preparation, and Black children's sociopolitical sensemaking as a resource.

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6 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2100

AI Literacy, AI Tools

Short papers on AI literacy and AI tools across learners and educators, from students' mental models shaping epistemic cognition of AI results to teachers' feedback strategies with intelligent tutoring systems. Other talks cover teachers' uptake of AI in climate education, neural-network simulations for educators, AI literacy with children, and bibliometric trends in STEM.

Assessment, Feedback & Formative Practices in a talk

6 talks

Symposium · ALP 2nd Floor Rear

Conceptualizations and Mechanisms of Teachers’ Learning to Notice

A poster symposium on how science and mathematics teachers learn to notice, the construct of teacher attention, interpretation, and decision-making amid classroom complexity. The session compares how "learning to notice" is conceptualized and unpacks the mechanisms that drive it.

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