FoL 2026
AIED

FoundationalED: Dataset for Foundational Knowledge Tracing Pedagogical Grounding of LLMs

Mon Jun 29, 10:45 AM–11:00 AM · Room 102
Part of Rethinking Knowledge Tracing
Knowledge Tracing Generative AI & Large Language Models Educational Data Mining Methods
★ Notable speakers
Neil Heffernan ★★ — ASSISTments intelligent tutoring platform; educational data mining at scale
Shashank Sonkar ★ — Pedagogical alignment of LLMs; cognitive modeling of student reasoning; AI in education at scale

Introduces FoundationalED, a dataset for grounding LLMs in foundational knowledge-tracing pedagogy and benchmarking their instructional knowledge.

Authors

Eamon Worden, Neil Heffernan, Cristina Heffernan, Shashank Sonkar