Vol-4296
urn:nbn:de:0074-4296-x
10.83095/ceurws_04296

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SLM4ED 2026
Small Language Models for Education 2026

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop of Small Language Models for Education (SLM4ED)
co-located with FoL 2026

Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 28, 2026.

Edited by

Yumou Wei ¹
Steven Moore ²
Paulo F. Carvalho ¹
John Stamper ¹
Christopher Brooks ³
Michael Liut ⁴

¹ Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
² George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
³ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
⁴ University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada

Table of Contents

Preface
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Fine-Tuning A 1.2B Large Language Model for Systematic Review Screening in Educational Technology
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_001
Kweku Yamoah, Noah Schroeder, Emmanuel Dorley, Neha Rani, Caleb Schutz
Structured Feedback for Arabic Competitive Debates Using a Small Language Model
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_002
Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Gerd Vandersteen
Browser-Sized Agents: Small Language Models and WebLLM for Tool-Augmented AI-Assisted Programming Education
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_003
Bogdan Suvernev, Yuchen Wang, Xindi Tong, Chee Wei Tan
DiffiQG: Difficulty-Controlled Question Generation Using Small Language Models
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_004
Sahan Bulathwela, Wilson Lee, Kalindu Kumarasinghe, Sarang Balan
Can Small Language Models Teach Effectively? Evaluating Explanations and Analogies Strategies
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_005
Sijie Mei, Fanfei Meng, Siyun Chen, Shruti Mehta, Talita de Paula Cypriano de Souza, Seiji Isotani
CSTutorBench: Benchmarking Small Language Models as Tutors for Block-Based Programming
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_006
H. Chad Lane, Bryson Kageler
Compression-First Knowledge Tracing with a Small Language Model
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_007
Max Norris, Daniel Huencho, Sahan Bulathwela
Bounding Boxes to Improve Small Language Model Performance on Vision-Based Grading Tasks
PDF 10.83095/ceurws_04296_008
Lachlan McGinness

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