Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems
Dynamic biological processes, such as intracellular signaling pathways, commonly are taught in science courses using static representations of individual steps in the pathway. As a result, students often memorize these steps for examination purposes, but fail to appreciate either the cascade nature...
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| description | Dynamic biological processes, such as intracellular signaling pathways, commonly are taught in science courses using static representations of individual steps in the pathway. As a result, students often memorize these steps for examination purposes, but fail to appreciate either the cascade nature of the pathway. In this study, we compared eye movement patterns for students who correctly ordered the components of an important pathway responsible for vasoconstriction against those who did not. Similarly, we compared the patterns of students who learned the material using three dimensional (3-D) animations previously associated with improved student understanding of this pathway against those who learned the material using static images extracted from those animations. For two of the three ordering problems, students with higher scores had shorter total fixation duration when ordering the components and spent less time (fixating) in the planning and solving phases of the problem-solving process. This finding was supported by the scanpath patterns that demonstrated that students who correctly solved the problems used more efficient problem-solving strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4c8c63f4c46c4f9a834b33ebefb130f52025-08-20T02:56:45ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922016-05-019310.16910/jemr.9.3.6Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering ProblemsHui Tang0Elizabeth Day1Lisa Kendhammer2James N Moore3Scott A Brown4Norbert J Pienta5The University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaDynamic biological processes, such as intracellular signaling pathways, commonly are taught in science courses using static representations of individual steps in the pathway. As a result, students often memorize these steps for examination purposes, but fail to appreciate either the cascade nature of the pathway. In this study, we compared eye movement patterns for students who correctly ordered the components of an important pathway responsible for vasoconstriction against those who did not. Similarly, we compared the patterns of students who learned the material using three dimensional (3-D) animations previously associated with improved student understanding of this pathway against those who learned the material using static images extracted from those animations. For two of the three ordering problems, students with higher scores had shorter total fixation duration when ordering the components and spent less time (fixating) in the planning and solving phases of the problem-solving process. This finding was supported by the scanpath patterns that demonstrated that students who correctly solved the problems used more efficient problem-solving strategies.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2521Eye-trackingproblem-solvingscanpathscience ordering problems |
| spellingShingle | Hui Tang Elizabeth Day Lisa Kendhammer James N Moore Scott A Brown Norbert J Pienta Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems Journal of Eye Movement Research Eye-tracking problem-solving scanpath science ordering problems |
| title | Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems |
| title_full | Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems |
| title_fullStr | Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems |
| title_short | Eye Movement Patterns in Solving Science Ordering Problems |
| title_sort | eye movement patterns in solving science ordering problems |
| topic | Eye-tracking problem-solving scanpath science ordering problems |
| url | https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2521 |
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