The STACK conference will take place over five-days. The aim is to blend academic presentations, hands-on workshops, community meetings, and opportunities for collaboration. The conference will include:
- whole-group sessions (keynote addresses);
- parallel presentations;
- plenary discussions;
- poster walk through;
- practical workshops on specific STACK features;
- shared breaks and some unstructured time for collaboration.
The conference will include the traditional paper presentations, lightning talks, and poster presentations, grouped into thematic sessions. Each thematic session will conclude with a 20–30 minute plenary discussion, moderated by the topic chair. This will bring together the ideas raised in the paper and lightning talks, allowing for additional questions, comments, and contributions from participants.
Paper Presentations (25 minutes)
These sessions accommodate research findings, institutional case studies, technical developments, and substantial contributions to STACK practice or pedagogy.
Lightning Talks (10 minutes)
Short, focused presentations designed to share emerging ideas, tools, results, or provocations for discussion.
Posters
Posters will be displayed in common areas of the venue to provide an opportunity for visual communication of work in progress, exploratory ideas, practical tools, and other relevant work. A poster walk through will allow participants to engage with the authors.
Whole-Group Sessions
In addition to the parallel thematic sessions, the conference will include several whole-group sessions designed to bring the full community together. These include:
- Opening Ceremony
- Confirmed Keynote Talks:
- STACK in the African Context — Mike Obiero
- AI and Assessment
- The STACK Project — Chris Sangwin
- Poster walk through, with opportunities to engage directly with authors
- Shared breaks and networking moments
Thematic Topics
Submissions will be grouped into thematic areas, each chaired by a member of the community with relevant expertise. Full descriptions of the topics can be found in the Abstract Submission page.
- Mathematical assessment in the age of AI — Chair: Jesús Copado
- Institutionalisation of STACK — Chair: Mike Altieri
- Research evidence and methods — Chair: Ian Jones
- STACK in challenging environments — Chair: Michael Obiero
- Cross-institutional collaborations in STACK — Chair: Franca Hoffmann
- STACK-related developments — Chair: Michael Kallweit
- Competency-based learning and electronic assessment: STACK for secondary schools — Chair: Zach Mbasu
- STACK in formative and summative assessment — Chair: Meike Akveld
- Training materials, processes, and practices — Chair: Tim Lowe
- Automated assessment beyond mathematics — Chair: Michael Crocco
- General submissions (for other contributions) — Chair: George Kinnear
Workshops
Workshops are a core component of the conference and will run across several parallel streams. These will focus on practical skill building, tool use, and collaborative development. In the registration form there will be an opportunity either to suggest additional workshops you would like to offer, or to request workshops on areas not currently covered.
Planned workshop areas include:
- Introduction to STACK for new users
- Developing STACK 101 / training materials
- STACK tools for non-mathematics subjects
- The STACK Library
- JSXGraph
- PreTeXt
- Question bank management (including version control workflows)
- Question lifecycle
- Professionals Network meeting
- Research Network meeting
- Additional participant-proposed workshops
Workshops will vary in length and format, offering hands-on activity and experience.
Final Programme
A full, timed programme will be published once all submissions have been reviewed and scheduling has been completed.
Please refer back to this page for updates.
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