SLM4ED 2026
Small Language Models for Education 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 12 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume.

Regular Papers

• Fine-Tuning A 1.2B Large Language Model for Systematic Review Screening in Educational Technology
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper1
  Kweku Yamoah, Noah Schroeder, Emmanuel Dorley, Neha Rani, Caleb Schutz
• Structured Feedback for Arabic Competitive Debates Using a Small Language Model
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper2
  Ali Al-Zawqari, Ali Safa, Gerd Vandersteen
• Browser-Sized Agents: Small Language Models and WebLLM for Tool-Augmented AI-Assisted Programming Education
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper3
  Bogdan Suvernev, Yuchen Wang, Xindi Tong, Chee Wei Tan
• DiffiQG: Difficulty-Controlled Question Generation Using Small Language Models
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper4
  Sahan Bulathwela, Wilson Lee, Kalindu Kumarasinghe, Sarang Balan
• Can Small Language Models Teach Effectively? Evaluating Explanations and Analogies Strategies
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper5
  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
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper6
  H. Chad Lane, Bryson Kageler
• Compression-First Knowledge Tracing with a Small Language Model
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_paper7
  Max Norris, Daniel Huencho, Sahan Bulathwela

Short Papers

• Bounding Boxes to Improve Small Language Model Performance on Vision-Based Grading Tasks (short paper)
  doi:10.83095/ceurws_04296_short1
  Lachlan McGinness