Teachers' gaze over space and time in a real-world classroom

Smidekova, Zuzana and Janik, Miroslav and Minarikova, Eva and Holmqvist, Kenneth (2020) Teachers' gaze over space and time in a real-world classroom. JOURNAL OF EYE MOVEMENT RESEARCH, 13 (4): 1. ISSN 1995-8692,

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Abstract

Reading students' faces and their body language, checking their worksheets, and keeping eye contact is a key trait of teacher competence. The new technology of mobile eye-tracking provides researchers with possibilities to explore teaching from the viewpoint of teacher gaze, but also introduces many new method questions. This study had the primary aim to investigate teachers ' attention distribution over space: the number and durations of several types of their gazes, and how their gaze depends on the factors of students ' gender, achievement, and position in the classroom. Results show that teacher gaze was distributed unevenly across both space and time. Teachers looked at the most-watched students 3-8 times more often than at the least-watched ones. Students sitting in the first row and the middle section received significantly more gaze than those sitting outside this zone. All three teachers made more single gaze visits - looking at the students but making no eye contact - than mutual gazes or student material gazes. The three teachers' gaze distribution also varied substantially from lesson to lesson. Our results are important for understanding teacher behavior in real classrooms, but also point to the relevance of appropriate method design in future classroom studies with eye-tracking.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: EYE CONTACT; VISUAL-ATTENTION; SEATING LOCATION; STUDENT SEX; GENDER; IMMEDIACY; BOYS; PARTICIPATION; COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE; Eye movement; eye tracking; attention; region of interest; individual differences; gaze
Subjects: 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology
Divisions: Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie
Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2021 10:53
Last Modified: 06 Apr 2021 10:53
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45413

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