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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties (Labor Notes)
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p43#a250708p43

LearnLens: LLM-Enabled Personalised, Curriculum-Grounded Feedback with Educators in the Loop
Runcong Zhao, Artem Borov, Jiazheng Li, Yulan He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04295

LearnLens: LLM-Enabled Personalised, Curriculum-Grounded Feedback with Educators in the Loop
Effective feedback is essential for student learning but is time-intensive for teachers. We present LearnLens, a modular, LLM-based system that generates personalised, curriculum-aligned feedback in science education. LearnLens comprises three components: (1) an error-aware assessment module that captures nuanced reasoning errors; (2) a curriculum-grounded generation module that uses a structured, topic-linked memory chain rather than traditional similarity-based retrieval, improving relevance …

"New list of primates in peril aims to focus attention and inspire action"
#Primates #Animals

New list of primates in peril aims to focus attention and inspire action
ANTANANARIVO — For more than six decades, the International Primatological Society (IPS) has brought scientists, conservationists and educators from around the world together every two years to exchange ideas and drive primate research and conservation. The 30th IPS Congress welcomed nearly 800 participants from around the world to Madagascar, the “Land of Lemurs.” It’s a […]

Google announces 30 Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more | TechCrunch
Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.

Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Automated Assessment in Programming Education Contests
Stefan Dascalescu, Adrian Marius Dumitran, Mihai Alexandru Vasiluta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05990

Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Automated Assessment in Programming Education Contests
Competitive programming contests play a crucial role in cultivating computational thinking and algorithmic skills among learners. However, generating comprehensive test cases to effectively assess programming solutions remains resource-intensive and challenging for educators. This paper introduces an innovative NLP-driven method leveraging generative AI (large language models) to automate the creation of high-quality test cases for competitive programming assessments. We extensively evaluated o…

Missouri educators sue state over $51 million appropriation to private school vouchers | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/missouri-educators-sue-state-over-51-million-appropriation-private-school-vouchers

Why higher ed teaching is hard, and always will be. But we don't do it because it is easy, and we are trusted to do it well because we have hard earned expertise in our fields. Let's not undervalue that, hey?

"Instead of calculators, we could sit at exams with certain books on our desks, filled with logarithm and trigonometry tables, featuring formulae for algebra, calculus, and geometry. French-speaking Swiss students might remember the ubiquitous “Formulaire et Tables” of the “Commissions romandes de mathématiques, de physique et de chimie”, published by the Éditions du Tricorne, that many generations of Swiss students used during their exams."

Banning, Adopting, Reckoning
Last month, OpenAI, the company (in)famous for their ChatGPT product, released a course called "ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators", an event that has raised more than a few eyebrows, and even some outrage. We must have a serious conversation about the value of a bullshit generator in the context of teaching programming skills to new generations.

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
Zarreen Reza, Alexander Mazur, Michael T. Dugdale, Robin Ray-Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05925

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized as student-facing educational aids, their potential to directly support educators, particularly through locally deployable and customizable open-source solutions, remains significantly underexplored. Many existing educational solutions rely on cloud-based infrastructure or proprietary tools, which are costly and may raise privacy concerns. Regulated industries with limited budgets require affordable, self-hosted solutions. We introduc…

GoldMind: A Teacher-Centered Knowledge Management System for Higher Education -- Lessons from Iterative Design
Gloria Fern\'andez-Nieto, Lele Sha, Yuheng Li, Yi-Shan Tsai, Guanliang Chen, Yinwei Wei, Weiqing Wang, Jinchun Wen, Shaveen Singh, Ivan Silva, Yuanfang Li, Dragan Gas\v{e}vi\'c, Zachari Swiecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.0…

GoldMind: A Teacher-Centered Knowledge Management System for Higher Education -- Lessons from Iterative Design
Designing Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) for higher education requires addressing complex human-technology interactions, especially where staff turnover and changing roles create ongoing challenges for reusing knowledge. While advances in process mining and Generative AI enable new ways of designing features to support knowledge management, existing KMSs often overlook the realities of educators' workflows, leading to low adoption and limited impact. This paper presents findings from a two…

Despite what economists and educators view as the benefits of international students,
Trump officials, led by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, are determined to reduce the number of international students who enter and remain in the United States to work.

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students
Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Insights from Educators on Building a More Cohesive Quantum Information Science and Engineering Education Ecosystem
Shams El-Adawy, A. R. Pi\~na, Benjamin M. Zwickl, H. J. Lewandowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01578

Insights from Educators on Building a More Cohesive Quantum Information Science and Engineering Education Ecosystem
As the need for a quantum-ready workforce grows, educators in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) face the challenge of aligning their programs and courses with industry needs. Through a series of interviews with program directors and faculty across 15 different institutions, we identified the considerations that educators are currently addressing as they develop their various courses and programs. Grounded in a curriculum framework, we conducted a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportun…

Apparently “cyber space engineer” is an actual military role now.
https://cyberandspecialistoperationscommand.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/04/the-human-firewall-building-britains-cyber-defenders/

The Human Firewall: Building Britain’s Cyber Defenders  – Cyber & Specialist Operations Command
Corporal Rhys, Cyber Operator, Cyber & Specialist Operations Command  Our people are the lifeblood of CSOC – a dedicated force of 26,000 specialists stationed at over 130 sites worldwide. From cyber warriors and medics to intelligence analysts, special forces, educators,

Capturing and Sharing Know-How through Visual Process Representations: A Human-Centred Approach to Teacher Workflows
Gloria Fern\'andez-Nieto, Vanessa Echeverria, Yuheng Li, Yi-Shan Tsai, Lele Sha, Guanliang Chen, Dragan Gasevic, Zachari Swiecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04357

Capturing and Sharing Know-How through Visual Process Representations: A Human-Centred Approach to Teacher Workflows
Knowledge Management is crucial for capturing and transferring expertise within universities, especially in high staff turnover contexts where expertise loss disrupts teaching. Documenting teachers' workflows is time-intensive and diverts experts from core responsibilities. Sequential Pattern Mining (SPM) leverages log data to identify expert workflows, offering an automated alternative to represent workflows but requiring transformation into intuitive formats for novice educators. This paper i…

The vote means 600 workers at the parks,
including park rangers, researchers, educators, fee collectors and first responders, among others,
will be represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE).
Labor organizers have been trying to form a union at the parks for years but did not have the necessary support
until this year when the Trump administration’s mass firings left the parks service in turmoil

Grammarly debuts AI agents for writing and grading assistance, including an AI grader and a citation finder agent, available for Grammarly Free and Pro users (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760508/grammarly-ai-agents-help-students-ed…

Grammarly says its AI agent can predict an A paper
Grammarly is launching several new AI agents for specific writing challenges for educators and students. It can catch plagiarism and even predict a grade.

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

Why Teach Quantum?: Elementary Teachers Initial Beliefs about Quantum
Xiaolu Zhang, Nancy Holincheck, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Stephanie Dodman, Ben W. Dreyfus, Jennifer Simons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03849

Why Teach Quantum?: Elementary Teachers Initial Beliefs about Quantum
This paper examines the initial beliefs held by elementary educators (n=11) and their students about teaching and learning quantum concepts at the elementary level. All teachers were participants in a grant-funded project focused on developing teachers' quantum content knowledge and creating curricular resources to use in elementary classrooms. Although elementary teachers had limited knowledge of quantum at the beginning of the project, they expressed excitement and a belief that learning quan…

Empowering Educators in the Age of AI: An Empirical Study on Creating custom GPTs in Qualitative Research Method education
Qian Huang, Thijs Willems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21074

Empowering Educators in the Age of AI: An Empirical Study on Creating custom GPTs in Qualitative Research Method education
As generative AI (Gen-AI) tools become more prevalent in education, there is a growing need to understand how educators, not just students, can actively shape their design and use. This study investigates how two instructors integrated four custom GPT tools into a Masters-level Qualitative Research Methods course for Urban Planning Policy students. Addressing two key gaps: the dominant framing of students as passive AI users, and the limited use of AI in qualitative methods education. The study…

Most educators have moved from denial about AI to cautious use, but the real cutting-edge is creators misusing it, twisting it, revealing off-label uses and glitches. At least that's what I claim in this U of T podcast https://edtech.engineering.utoronto.ca/made-for-u-o…

Hard to take seriously an organization that won't call out a nazi salute for what it is and won't speak out against genocide...
**Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties** | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties

Beyond Text: Probing K-12 Educators' Perspectives and Ideas for Learning Opportunities Leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models
Tiffany Tseng, Katelyn Lam, Tiffany Lin Fu, Alekhya Maram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20720

Beyond Text: Probing K-12 Educators' Perspectives and Ideas for Learning Opportunities Leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are beginning to empower new user experiences that can flexibly generate content from a range of inputs, including images, text, speech, and video. These capabilities have the potential to enrich learning by enabling users to capture and interact with information using a variety of modalities, but little is known about how educators envision how MLLMs might shape the future of learning experiences, what challenges diverse teachers encounter when interpre…

TK : The bridge between preschool and Kindergarten for California’s children
⭐️California expanded Transitional Kindergarten (TK)
💥to serve all 4-year-olds. 👍
Many educators over the years have called for a developmentally appropriate grade for our youngest learners
— now with the expansion of TK, California is on the cusp of achieving the vision of the Master Plan for Early Learning and Care (MPELC),
which called for a year of
publicly-funded preschool

Hard to find a single summarizing quote from the post, but it keeps coming back to two closely related ideas:
(1) the tendency of humans to blame themselves for poor tool performance (“oh I should have prompted in •that• way instead, my bad”), and
(2) what we educators call the “hidden curriculum:” people are unaware of learning they have done / habitual effort they are expending, and thus they see their own learning / ongoing effort as zero-cost, obvious, nonexistent, innate personal virtue, etc.
The existence of (2) sets people up for (1); recognizing (2) helps cure (1).
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Can we cite Wikipedia? What if Wikipedia was more reliable than its detractors ?
Mohamed El Louadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Can we cite Wikipedia? What if Wikipedia was more reliable than its detractors ?
Wikipedia, a widely successful encyclopedia recognized in academic circles and used by both students and professors alike, has led educators to question whether it can be cited as an information source, given its widespread use for this very purpose. The dilemma quickly emerged: if Wikipedia has become the go-to information source for so many, why can't it be cited? If consulting and using Wikipedia as a source of information is permitted, why does it become controversial the moment one attempt…

More Texas districts adopt four-day school weeks | The Texas Tribune #Texas

Four-day school weeks are on the rise as Texas districts look for teacher perks on a tight budget
More than 500 schools are using four-day school weeks, a dramatic increase from two years ago driven by tight budgets and fierce competition for educators amid a statewide teacher shortage.

Using Generative AI in Software Design Education: An Experience Report
Victoria Jackson, Susannah Liu, Andre van der Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21703 …

Using Generative AI in Software Design Education: An Experience Report
With the rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, software engineering educators have grappled with how best to incorporate them into the classroom. While some research discusses the use of GenAI in the context of learning to code, there is little research that explores the use of GenAI in the classroom for other areas of software development. This paper provides an experience report on introducing GenAI into an undergraduate software design class. Students were required to use GenAI (in …

Unpack AI’s environmental impact today at 11am EDT, from local vs global effects to how it stacks up against Netflix flights. Try out a new student-friendly tool brainstorm classroom ideas in this #MyFest25 webinar HT @…

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Donya Rooein, Dirk Hovy, Tanja K\"aser, Mrinmaya Sachan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08702

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up the possibility of using them as personal tutors. This has led to the development of several intelligent tutoring systems and learning assistants that use LLMs as back-ends with various degrees of engineering. In this study, we seek to compare human tutors with LLM tutors in terms of engagement, empathy, scaffolding, and conciseness. We ask human tutors to annotate and compare the performance of an LLM tutor with that of a human tut…

Unpacking Generative AI in Education: Computational Modeling of Teacher and Student Perspectives in Social Media Discourse
Paulina DeVito, Akhil Vallala, Sean Mcmahon, Yaroslav Hinda, Benjamin Thaw, Hanqi Zhuang, Hari Kalva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16412

Unpacking Generative AI in Education: Computational Modeling of Teacher and Student Perspectives in Social Media Discourse
Generative AI (GAI) technologies are quickly reshaping the educational landscape. As adoption accelerates, understanding how students and educators perceive these tools is essential. This study presents one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of stakeholder discourse dynamics on GAI in education using social media data. Our dataset includes 1,199 Reddit posts and 13,959 corresponding top-level comments. We apply sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and author classification. To support th…

Broadband Low-Resolution Spectrograph -- SpectrumMate LR
Nguyen Nguyen-Duc, Thuy Le-Quang, Tobias C. Hinse, Tue Nguyen-Van, Quang Nguyen-Luong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16153

Broadband Low-Resolution Spectrograph -- SpectrumMate LR
This paper presents the development and application of SpectrumMate LR, a broadband, low-resolution spectrograph for small telescope use. SpectrumMate LR is designed to offer affordable, accessible spectroscopic capabilities for amateur astronomers and educators, inspired by the need for versatile instruments in amateur and educational settings. Utilising a 300 grooves/mm grating, 80 mm collimator and objective lenses, SpectrumMate LR is optimised to perform analyses across the visible spectrum…

"A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?"
Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-the-holocaust-just-got-harder-in-mississippi-hb-1193-dei-slavery-tate-reeves

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02180

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Large language Models have only been widely available since 2022 and yet in less than three years have had a significant impact on approaches to education and educational technology. Here we review the domains in which they have been used, and discuss a variety of use cases, their successes and failures. We then progress to discussing how this is changing the dynamic for learners and educators, consider the main design challenges facing LLMs if they are to become truly helpful and effective as …

T-TExTS (Teaching Text Expansion for Teacher Scaffolding): Enhancing Text Selection in High School Literature through Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendation
Nirmal Gelal, Chloe Snow, Ambyr Rios, Hande K\"u\c{c}\"uk McGinty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12075

T-TExTS (Teaching Text Expansion for Teacher Scaffolding): Enhancing Text Selection in High School Literature through Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendation
The implementation of transformational pedagogy in secondary education classrooms requires a broad multiliteracy approach. Due to limited planning time and resources, high school English Literature teachers often struggle to curate diverse, thematically aligned literature text sets. This study addresses the critical need for a tool that provides scaffolds for novice educators in selecting literature texts that are diverse -- in terms of genre, theme, subtheme, and author -- yet similar in conte…

KOALA: a Configurable Tool for Collecting IDE Data When Solving Programming Tasks
Daniil Karol, Elizaveta Artser, Ilya Vlasov, Yaroslav Golubev, Hieke Keuning, Anastasiia Birillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21266

KOALA: a Configurable Tool for Collecting IDE Data When Solving Programming Tasks
Collecting data of students solving programming tasks is incredibly valuable for researchers and educators. It allows verifying that the students correctly apply the features and concepts they are taught, or finding students' misconceptions. However, existing data collection tools have limitations, e.g., no control over the granularity of the collected code, not collecting the specific events of the programming environment used, and overall being hard to configure. To overcome these limitatio…

Republicans Introduce Bill to Revoke the Charter of Largest US Teachers Union
They cited the union’s pledge to “defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism”
and cutting ties with the ADL
https://www.commondreams.org/news/national-education-associa…

'Congress Must Reject This Attack': GOP Bill Would Revoke Charter of Largest US Teachers Union | Common Dreams
The president of the National Education Association said Republicans are attacking the union because "the billionaires that fund their campaigns don't want educators to have a voice."

Enabling Multi-Agent Systems as Learning Designers: Applying Learning Sciences to AI Instructional Design
Jiayi Wang, Ruiwei Xiao, Xinying Hou, John Stamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16659

Enabling Multi-Agent Systems as Learning Designers: Applying Learning Sciences to AI Instructional Design
K-12 educators are increasingly using Large Language Models (LLMs) to create instructional materials. These systems excel at producing fluent, coherent content, but often lack support for high-quality teaching. The reason is twofold: first, commercial LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Gemini which are among the most widely accessible to teachers, do not come preloaded with the depth of pedagogical theory needed to design truly effective activities; second, although sophisticated prompt engineering can …

Factors Impacting Faculty Adoption of Project-Based Learning in Computing Education: a Survey
Ahmad D. Suleiman, Yiming Tang, Daqing Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18039 https:/…

Factors Impacting Faculty Adoption of Project-Based Learning in Computing Education: a Survey
This research full paper investigates the factors influencing computing educators' adoption of project-based learning (PjBL) in software engineering and computing curricula. Recognized as a student-centered pedagogical approach, PjBL has the potential to enhance student motivation, engagement, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. Despite these benefits, faculty adoption remains inconsistent due to challenges such as insufficient institutional support, time constraints, …

Analyzing Security and Privacy Challenges in Generative AI Usage Guidelines for Higher Education
Bei Yi Ng, Jiarui Li, Xinyuan Tong, Kevin Ye, Gauthami Yenne, Varun Chandrasekaran, Jingjie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20463

Analyzing Security and Privacy Challenges in Generative AI Usage Guidelines for Higher Education
Educators and learners worldwide are embracing the rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) as it reshapes higher education. However, GenAI also raises significant privacy and security concerns, as models and privacy-sensitive user data, such as student records, may be misused by service providers. Unfortunately, end-users often have little awareness of or control over how these models operate. To address these concerns, universities are developing institutional policies to guide GenA…

Augmentation Technologies and AI - An Ethical Design Futures Framework
Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16615 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Augmentation Technologies and AI - An Ethical Design Futures Framework
Augmentation technologies, fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), are undergoing a process of adaptation and normalization geared to everyday users in various roles as practitioners, educators, and students. While new innovations, applications, and algorithms are developed as augmentation technology, Chapter 1 focuses on human subjects, contexts, and rhetorical strategies proposed for them by external actors. The chapter discusses core functions of technical and professional communication and …

Industry Perspectives on Projected Quantum Workforce Needs
Shams El-Adawy, A. R. Pi\~na, Benjamin M. Zwickl, H. J. Lewandowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15055 https://

Industry Perspectives on Projected Quantum Workforce Needs
As more physics educators are developing courses and programs to prepare students for careers in quantum information science, understanding the quantum industry's future workforce needs has become increasingly important. As part of ongoing efforts to understand the knowledge and skills needed for various job roles, we interviewed quantum industry professionals in managerial positions about workforce needs. Through thematic analysis, we identify two broad themes about projected needs. First, man…

AI in Design Education at College Level-Educators' Perspectives and Challenges
Lizhu Zhang, Cecilia X. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17481 https://…

Detecting LLM-Generated Short Answers and Effects on Learner Performance
Shambhavi Bhushan, Danielle R Thomas, Conrad Borchers, Isha Raghuvanshi, Ralph Abboud, Erin Gatz, Shivang Gupta, Kenneth Koedinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17196

Detecting LLM-Generated Short Answers and Effects on Learner Performance
The increasing availability of large language models (LLMs) has raised concerns about their potential misuse in online learning. While tools for detecting LLM-generated text exist and are widely used by researchers and educators, their reliability varies. Few studies have compared the accuracy of detection methods, defined criteria to identify content generated by LLM, or evaluated the effect on learner performance from LLM misuse within learning. In this study, we define LLM-generated text wit…

Detecting Struggling Student Programmers using Proficiency Taxonomies
Noga Schwartz, Roy Fairstein, Avi Segal, Kobi Gal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17353 https://

Detecting Struggling Student Programmers using Proficiency Taxonomies
Early detection of struggling student programmers is crucial for providing them with personalized support. While multiple AI-based approaches have been proposed for this problem, they do not explicitly reason about students' programming skills in the model. This study addresses this gap by developing in collaboration with educators a taxonomy of proficiencies that categorizes how students solve coding tasks and is embedded in the detection model. Our model, termed the Proficiency Taxonomy Model…

QISCIT: A validated concept inventory assessment for quantum information science
Kelley Durkin, Manshuo Lin, Michael H. Kolodrubetz, Ryan P. McMahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17122

QISCIT: A validated concept inventory assessment for quantum information science
Quantum information science (QIS) is a critical interdisciplinary field that requires a well-educated workforce in the near future. Numerous researchers and educators have been actively investigating how to best educate and prepare such a workforce. An open issue has been the lack of a validated tool to asses QIS understanding without requiring college-level math. In this paper, we present the systematic development and content validation of a new assessment instrument called the Quantum Inform…

Decoding Instructional Dialogue: Human-AI Collaborative Analysis of Teacher Use of AI Tool at Scale
Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar, Victor Tian, Zachary Zhang, Kevin He, Min Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17985

Decoding Instructional Dialogue: Human-AI Collaborative Analysis of Teacher Use of AI Tool at Scale
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into educational tools has the potential to substantially impact how teachers plan instruction, support diverse learners, and engage in professional reflection. Yet little is known about how educators actually use these tools in practice and how their interactions with AI can be meaningfully studied at scale. This paper presents a human-AI collaborative methodology for large-scale qualitative analysis of over 140,000 educator-AI messages drawn fro…

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Somaya Ben Allouch, Aske Plaat, Rob Saunders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18711

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
The goal of this study is to identify factors that support and enhance older adults' creative experiences in human-robot co-creativity. Because the research into the use of robots for creativity support with older adults remains underexplored, we carried out an exploratory case study. We took a participatory approach and collaborated with professional art educators to design a course Drawing with Robots for adults aged 65 and over. The course featured human-human and human-robot drawing activit…

Designing for Learning with Generative AI is a Wicked Problem: An Illustrative Longitudinal Qualitative Case Series
Clara Scalzer, Saurav Pokhrel, Sara Hunt, Greg L Nelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17230

Designing for Learning with Generative AI is a Wicked Problem: An Illustrative Longitudinal Qualitative Case Series
Students continue their education when they feel their learning is meaningful and relevant for their future careers. Computing educators now face the challenge of preparing students for careers increasingly shaped by generative AI (GenAI) with the goals of supporting their learning, motivation, ethics, and career development. Our longitudinal qualitative study of students in a GenAI-integrated creative media course shows how this is a "wicked" problem: progress on one goal can then impede progr…

Developing a ChatGPT-Based Tool for Physics Experiment Teaching
Yifeng Liu, Min Li, Zhaojun Zhang, Youkang Fang, Meibao Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13011 https://

Developing a ChatGPT-Based Tool for Physics Experiment Teaching
This paper examines how advanced AI assistants can help physics educators create practical teaching tools without specialized programming skills. Using the square-wave synthesis experiment as a case, we target common obstacles in laboratory instruction-complex setup, unstable signals, and limited class time-and show how AI-assisted development can shift attention from wiring and calibration to core physical ideas. To address this need, we guided an AI assistant through iterative prompts to ge…

Designing Effective LLM-Assisted Interfaces for Curriculum Development
Abdolali Faraji, Mohammadreza Tavakoli, Mohammad Moein, Mohammadreza Molavi, G\'abor Kismih\'ok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11767

Designing Effective LLM-Assisted Interfaces for Curriculum Development
Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to transform the way a dynamic curriculum can be delivered. However, educators face significant challenges in interacting with these models, particularly due to complex prompt engineering and usability issues, which increase workload. Additionally, inaccuracies in LLM outputs can raise issues around output quality and ethical concerns in educational content delivery. Addressing these issues requires careful oversight, best achieved through coopera…

Estimating Cognitive Effort from Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Signals using Machine Learning
Shayla Sharmin, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13952

Estimating Cognitive Effort from Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Signals using Machine Learning
The estimation of cognitive effort could potentially help educators to modify material to enhance learning effectiveness and student engagement. Where cognitive load refers how much work the brain is doing while someone is learning or doing a task cognitive effort consider both load and behavioral performance. Cognitive effort can be captured by measuring oxygen flow and behavioral performance during a task. This study infers cognitive effort metrics using machine learning models based on oxyge…

Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement
Marco De Luca, Sergio Di Martino, Sergio Di Meglio, Anna Rita Fasolino, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Porfirio Tramontana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12488

Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement
When teaching Programming and Software Engineering in Bachelor's Degree programs, the emphasis on creating functional software projects often overshadows the focus on software quality, a trend that aligns with ACM curricula recommendations. Software Engineering courses are typically introduced later in the curriculum, and can generally allocate only limited time to quality-related topics, leaving educators with the challenge of deciding which quality aspects to prioritize. In this decision, the…

Learning to Use AI for Learning: How Can We Effectively Teach and Measure Prompting Literacy for K-12 Students?
Ruiwei Xiao, Xinying Hou, Ying-Jui Tseng, Hsuan Nieu, Guanze Liao, John Stamper, Kenneth R. Koedinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13962

Learning to Use AI for Learning: How Can We Effectively Teach and Measure Prompting Literacy for K-12 Students?
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into daily life, there is a growing need to equip the next generation with the ability to apply, interact with, evaluate, and collaborate with AI systems responsibly. Prior research highlights the urgent demand from K-12 educators to teach students the ethical and effective use of AI for learning. To address this need, we designed an Large-Language Model (LLM)-based module to teach prompting literacy. This includes scenario-based d…

From Data to Insight: Using Contextual Scenarios to Teach Critical Thinking in Data Visualisation
Jonathan C. Roberts, Peter Butcher, Panagiotis D. Ritsos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08737

From Data to Insight: Using Contextual Scenarios to Teach Critical Thinking in Data Visualisation
This paper explores the use of scenario-based visualisation examples as a pedagogical strategy for teaching students the complexities of data insight, representation, and interpretation. Teaching data visualisation often involves explaining intricate issues related to data management and the challenges of presenting data meaningfully. In this work, we present a series of data-driven scenarios. These concise stories depict specific situations, and are created to help the educators highlight key …

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Rob Saunders, Aske Plaat, Somaya Ben Allouch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07550

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
This position paper explores pluriperspectivism as a core element of human creative experience and its relevance to humanrobot cocreativity We propose a layered fivedimensional model to guide the design of cocreative behaviors and the analysis of interaction dynamics This model is based on literature and results from an interview study we conducted with 10 visual artists and 8 arts educators examining how pluriperspectivism supports creative practice The findings of this study provide insight i…