The Tools Competition is pleased to announce the three winners selected from 150 submissions in the Datasets for Education Innovation track!
The Datasets for Education Innovation track enabled the creation and public release of robust, open datasets that advance education research, fuel AI development, and reduce barriers to innovation.
This year’s winning submissions offer carefully curated datasets drawn from a range of learning contexts and learner populations. They are designed to help ensure that future systems are informed by a broader and more inclusive range of educational experiences.
Each winning team received $100,000 to support the continued development and release of their dataset, further strengthening the open infrastructure that underpins progress in the field.
Winners of the Datasets for Education Innovation track
- AIED-Unplugged Dataset | CESAR | Brazil
AIED-Unplugged Dataset comprises 100,000 handwritten responses from K-12 students in Brazilian public schools to advance research on automated scoring, feedback generation, and handwriting recognition in low-resource educational settings.
- A Multimodal College-Level Writing and Feedback Dataset | Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh | USA
A Multimodal College-Level Writing and Feedback Dataset, containing essays with multiple iterations, detailed instructor textual feedback, rubric-based scoring, student and teacher metadata, and office hour audio data from Pitt’s English writing classes, is designed to enhance understanding of student writing and teacher feedback processes and to benchmark generative AI’s ability to provide feedback that supports creativity and student learning.
- SkillFlix for Autistic Young Adults + SocialWise | dfusion, Inc | USA
The SkillFlix AYA+Socialwise / dfusion benchmark dataset will include AI conversation interaction data and self-reported cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes from 200 autistic college students to understand how AI-enhanced skill practice supports social-emotional learning success in higher education.
Learn more about the winners in all tracks here.
The Tools Competition is open to teams with tools at all stages of development and is run over three phases with support for teams to refine their ideas. Winners were selected from 10 finalists.
To date, the Tools Competition has named 171 winners from 53 countries over six cycles, who are currently reaching over 51 million learners and educators.
The Tools Competition is a program of Renaissance Philanthropy, organized by The Learning Agency, and made possible through the generous support of the Walton Family Foundation, Griffin Catalyst, Axim Collaborative, Oak Foundation, Cinelli Family Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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