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Publication Date: 2021-Jun
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Unpacking the Black-Box of Students' Visual Attention in Mathematics and English Classrooms: Empirical Evidence Using Mini-Video Recording Gadgets
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v37 n3 p773-781 Jun 2021
With the technological improvements of innovative portable recording gadgets, augmented researchers' interest in exploring students' visual attention in their natural and normal occurring classrooms. The purpose of this study was to gauge students' visual attention in their Mathematics and English classrooms. This article reports on a study conducted in three schools in Santiago, Chile, where a sample of 113 randomly selected students wore a mini-video camera mounted on eyeglass in their Mathematics and English lessons. Using Google images, we automatically and objectively examined 723,600 frames from the recordings where the classroom teacher appeared in the students' visual field. The results show that students' visual attention varies depending on four factors: (a) gender of the student, (b) age of the students, whether students are low/high attainers and (d) whether students are in English or Mathematics lessons. Surprisingly, students significantly paid more visual attention in their Mathematics than in English lessons. High attainers were more visually engaged than their low attainers counterparts. Students appeared to be visually engaged differently at different stages in their education. Furthermore, girls were more visually engaged than boys. The results of this study can have enormous practical implications for teachers and teacher education, in order to be better visually engaged with students during teaching.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Gender Differences, Attention Control, Age Differences, Visual Perception, Video Technology, Computer Software, Teacher Student Relationship, Vision, Learner Engagement, Comparative Analysis, Measurement Equipment, Measurement Techniques
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