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| Abstract Title: | Gaze pattern analysis to reveal student difficulties in interpreting kinematic graphs |
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| Abstract: | Graphs are an important interdisciplinary (and everyday) tool for visualizing and interpreting information use and communication processes and, thus, an essential part of 21st Century Skills. Especially linear functions are a fundamental component of school and university education, but students often have difficulties interpreting this type of function, in mathematics as well as in physics -- especially in kinematics. This paper presents first results of an eye-tracking study, which compares learners' visual attention during the interpretation of linear graphs in mathematical and physical contexts. In this study, gaze data of N=35 xxx (details redacted for review) upper secondary school students were recorded while solving items of a validated test instrument. This instrument consists of pairs of items in the mathematics and kinematics context that are isomorphic to each other, i.e., require the same procedure to solve. The analysis of the eye-tracking data provides information about the cognitive processes involved in solving the different items. On the basis of selected items, it is shown to what extent the gaze behavior differs between mathematical and kinematic contexts in isomorphic item pairs and which conclusions can thus be drawn about the different solution strategies and, thereby, also about difficulties in transferring mathematical procedures into a physical context. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 Room A |
| Poster Number: | 2A-22 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Dr. Sebastian Becker University of Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern, Non U.S. |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Lynn Knippertz; University of Kaiserslautern Prof. Stefan Ruzika; University of Kaiserslautern Prof. Jochen Kuhn; University of Kaiserslautern |
