Fostering and Assessing Authentic Learning: PreliminaryReport on Building a Generative AI Tool to Teach SQL

In this extended abstract, we discuss our preliminary experience with building a genAI powered "Intelligent Assessor" for conducting 1-1 dialogs with students by automatically generating targeted questions and evaluating responses to assess students' genuine understanding. Our research goals are twofold: (i) our current focus is to develop a tool to assess authentic learning (ii) subsequently we intend to extend our tool to foster authentic learning.