How Teachers Interpret Displays of Students' Gaze in Reading Comprehension Assignments

Autor/inn/en	Knoop-van Campen, Carolien A. N.; Kok, Ellen; van Doornik, Roos; de Vries, Pam; Immink, Marleen; Jarodzka, Halszka; van Gog, Tamara
Titel	How Teachers Interpret Displays of Students' Gaze in Reading Comprehension Assignments
Quelle	In: Frontline Learning Research, 9 (2021) 4, S.116-140 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2295-3159
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Reading Comprehension; Reading Assignments; Secondary School Teachers; Reading Strategies; Foreign Countries; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Leseverstehen; Reading strategy; Leselernstufe; Lesetechnik; Ausland; Niederlande
Abstract	Reading comprehension is a central skill in secondary education. To be able to provide adaptive instruction, teachers need to be able to accurately estimate students' reading comprehension. However, they tend to experience difficulties doing so. Eye tracking can uncover these reading processes by visualizing what a student looked at, in what order, and for how long, in a gaze display. The question is, however, whether teachers could interpret such displays. We, therefore, examined how teachers interpret gaze displays and perceived their potential use in education to foster tailored support for reading comprehension. Sixty teachers in secondary education were presented with three static gaze displays of students performing a reading comprehension task. Teachers were asked to report how they interpreted these gaze displays and what they considered to be the promises and pitfalls of gaze displays for education. Teachers interpreted in particular reading strategies in the gaze displays quite well, and also interpreted the displays as reflecting other concepts, such as motivation and concentration. Results showed that teachers' interpretations of the gaze displays were generally consistent across teachers and that teachers discriminated well between displays of different strategies. Teachers were generally positive about potential applications in educational practice. This study provides first insights into how teachers experience the utility of gaze displays as an innovative tool to support reading instruction, which is timely as rapid technological developments already enable eye tracking through webcams on regular laptops. Thus, using gaze displays in an educational setting seems to be an increasingly feasible scenario. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01