FoL 2026
AIED

CAD: Cognitive Agent Distillation for Explicit Problem Solver Modeling

Thu Jul 2, 4:10 PM–4:35 PM · R1 (Auditorium Meeting 1)
★ Notable speakers
Carolyn Rose ★★ — Computational analysis of collaborative learning and dialogue; conversational AI for education; bridging NLP and learning sciences
John Stamper — PSLC DataShop; educational data mining infrastructure; LearnSphere

Cognitive Agent Distillation (CAD), a technique for building explicit computational models of student problem-solving strategies by distilling them from larger models.

Authors

Hyeongdon Moon, Carolyn Rose, John Stamper