FAIR4AIED 2025 : International Workshop on Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making for Education

CFA: FAIR4AIED - International Workshop on Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making for Education



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International Workshop on Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making for Education
to be held as part of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025)
Workshop: 26 July 2025 - Palermo, Italy (with support for remote attendance)

https://fair4aied.github.io/2025/

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Important Dates

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Abstract submissions: June 30, 2025
Notifications: July 7, 2025
Workshop day: July 26, 2025 - Palermo, Italy (with support for remote attendance)
These deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. Upon acceptance, authors will have approximately two weeks to prepare 1-3 slides for their lightning talk.

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Workshop Aims and Scope

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This workshop will take the first steps towards developing a blueprint to integrate fairness into AIED research, practice, and adoption. Starting from existing frameworks, including procedural fairness and algorithmic audits, participants will expand upon previous research and work to bring the AIED community into alignment around fairness principles, resulting in the co-creation of a document for embedding fairness into AIED research, practice, and adoption.

Designed as an interactive full-day, hybrid event, the workshop will incorporate short lightning talk presentations (submission details below), small-group discussions, and a world café session. By the end of the workshop, participants will have contributed to the groundwork for an actionable framework to ensure that fairness is consistently and effectively considered in AIED.

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Workshop Topics

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The workshop welcomes contributions in the form of abstracts to foster discussion around the co-creation of the fairness blueprint. The abstract topic should be related to fairness in algorithmic decision-making in education, with a focus on (but not limited to) the following areas:

Fairness methods design and incorporation
Incorporating fairness principles across an AIED system
Ensuring fairness across the AIED system lifecycle
Integrating fairness with other AIED areas to provide complementary benefits
Fairness auditing and evaluation
Algorithmic auditing procedures in the context of AIED
Improving fairness metrics, definitions, and evaluation approaches in AIED
Strengthening mechanisms for long-term adherence to fairness in AIED
Fairness gaps and challenges identification
Identifying gaps and challenges in AIED regarding fairness
Exploring what we can do better concerning fairness as a research community
Challenges to improving fairness in practice
Methods for addressing these challenges in adopting fairness
Procedural Fairness
Operationalizing and studying procedural fairness across an AIED system
Gaps in current AIED research related to procedural fairness
Ensuring procedural fairness in AIED by identifying and addressing practical implementation challenges
Topics related to procedural fairness in education

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Submission Details

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We invite authors to submit a 250-word abstract, written in English. Abstracts should not exceed the indicated word limit. References do not count toward the word limit.

Abstracts should be submitted using the following form.
All submissions will undergo a single-blind review process conducted by the organizers.
Submissions will be evaluated based on relevance, originality, significance, and clarity.
The accepted abstracts will be made available on the workshop website.
At least one author per abstract must register for and attend the workshop to present it.
Abstracts will be delivered as lightning talks (approx. 5 minutes)
The authors of the accepted abstracts are responsible for preparing slides for their talk
We expect authors, the program committee, and the organizing committee to adhere to the ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy and the ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

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Workshop Chairs

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Clara Belitz, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
Nigel Bosch, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
Lan Jiang, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
Ioana Jivet, FernUniversität, Germany
Badmavasan Kirouchenassamy, Sorbonne University, France
HaeJin Lee, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA
Barbara Leporini, University of Pisa & ISTI-CNR, Italy
Francesca Maridina Malloci, University of Cagliari, Italy
Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy
Daniela Rotelli, Sorbonne University, France
Frank Stinar, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA

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Contacts

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For general enquiries on the workshop, please send an email to [email protected].