FoL 2026
EDM

Toward LLM-supported Automated Assessment of Critical Thinking Subskills

Mon Jun 29, 2:25 PM–2:50 PM · North 202
★ Notable speakers
Ryan S. Baker ★★ — Educational data mining; BROMP observational protocol; student disengagement detection
Blair Lehman — Affect and emotion in learning; confusion as a productive state in intelligent tutoring
Caitlin Mills — Mind-wandering and attention during learning; eye-tracking; adaptive learning; educational data mining
Andrew Lan — Machine learning and NLP for personalized learning, knowledge tracing, automated assessment

Explores using large language models to automatically assess distinct critical-thinking subskills, moving toward scalable automated evaluation of higher-order reasoning.

Authors

Marisa Peczuh, Nischal Ashok Kumar, Ryan Baker, Blair Lehman, Danielle Eisenberg, Caitlin Mills, Payu Wittawatolarn, Kushaan Naskar, Keerthi Chebrolu, Sudhip Nashi, Cadence Young, Brayden Liu, Sherry Lachman, Andrew Lan