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Eye Tracking Methodology for Studying Teacher Learning: A Review of the Research
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Beach, Pamela; McConnel, Jen – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2019
Eye tracking methodology offers insights into human attention, decision-making processes, and user behaviours. In the context of teacher learning, data generated from eye-tracking technology has the potential to provide important information about teachers' behavioural patterns and cognitive processes that may or may not be occurring during…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Faculty Development, Learning Processes, Information Processing
The Visual Uncertainty Paradigm for Controlling Screen-Space Information in Visualization
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Dasgupta, Aritra – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The information visualization pipeline serves as a lossy communication channel for presentation of data on a screen-space of limited resolution. The lossy communication is not just a machine-only phenomenon due to information loss caused by translation of data, but also a reflection of the degree to which the human user can comprehend visual…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Perception, Visualization
Information Graphic Classification, Decomposition and Alternative Representation
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Gao, Jinglun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This thesis work is mainly focused on two problems related to improving accessibility of information graphics for visually impaired users. The first problem is automated analysis of information graphics for information extraction and the second problem is multi-modal representations for accessibility. Information graphics are graphical…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Users (Information), User Needs (Information), Visual Impairments
The Impact of Test-Taking Behaviors on WISC-IV Spanish Domain Scores in Its Standardization Sample
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Oakland, Thomas; Callueng, Carmelo; Harris, Josette G. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
The use of individually administered measures of intelligence and other cognitive abilities requires clinicians to monitor a client's test behaviors, given the need for a client to be engaged fully, attentive, and cooperative during the testing process. The use of standardized and norm-referenced measures of test-taking behaviors facilitates this…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Student Behavior, Children, Intelligence Quotient
Investigating Insight as Sudden Learning
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Ash, Ivan K.; Jee, Benjamin D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Problem Solving, 2012
Gestalt psychologists proposed two distinct learning mechanisms. Associative learning occurs gradually through the repeated co-occurrence of external stimuli or memories. Insight learning occurs suddenly when people discover new relationships within their prior knowledge as a result of reasoning or problem solving processes that re-organize or…
Descriptors: Intuition, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Associative Learning
Young Second Language Learners' Visual Attention to Illustrations in Storybooks
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Verhallen, Marian J. A. J.; Bus, Adriana G. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
The major purpose of this study was to test how preliterate learners use illustrations in storybooks to understand a story. Subjects were 23 five-year-old low-SES children, learning Dutch as a second language. Each child was exposed four times to a digital picture storybook. Five books were used and counterbalanced over children and repetitions.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Second Languages, Attention