FoL 2026
EDM

A Causal Framework for Estimating Local Effects of On-Demand Tutoring

Fri Jul 3, 10:45 AM–11:10 AM · North 202
★ Notable speakers
Justin Reich ★★ — Executive Director of MIT Teaching Systems Lab; author of 'Failure to Disrupt'; large-scale MOOC research (HarvardX/MITx); learning analytics; teacher preparation and tech policy
René Kizilcec ★★ — Learning at scale; algorithmic fairness and equity in digital education
Kirk Vanacore — Learning analytics; educational data mining; causal inference in tutoring; AI annotation of learning discourse at scale
Danielle R. Thomas — Human-AI hybrid tutoring; educational equity; AI-augmented tutoring for students with disabilities

A paper presenting a causal framework for estimating the local effects of on-demand tutoring on individual student outcomes.

Authors

Kirk Vanacore, Danielle R Thomas, Digory Smith, Bibi Groot, Justin Reich, Rene Kizilcec