Research in Progress: Investigating the Intersections of Attention and Self-Regulated Learning through Stimulated Recall and Student’s Eye-Tracking Behaviour
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Central Queensland University, Australia
The aim of this dissertation research project is to investigate how higher education students develop and refine self regulatory strategies and behaviours in the e-learning context over time. In this longitudinal study, students perform self-selected tasks within an online course forum in a laboratory setting with their eye movements tracked using Tobii X120 technology. At the end of the task, participants are then shown video of their eye movements during task performance and asked to describe their experience of the task in retrospect. These interviews are audio-recorded and transcribed, with the quantitative eye-tracking data and qualitative interview data being analysed in parallel.
In this longitudinal study, eye movement behaviours will offer insight into the development and refinement of self regulatory constructs. Through the triangulation of eye tracking metrics, direct observation and participant self-report, participants’ cognitive and self regulatory behaviours are being explored in regards to learning strategies such as planning, monitoring and decision making.
These strategies are founded on attention, with phenomena such as saccade/fixation ratios serving as indicators of where and how participants are attending to the learning task. Participant self-report data, gleaned from the stimulated recall interview, offers additional insight.
This presentation reports on the results of the initial findings and offers insight into how eye tracking metrics along with self report data can be considered in exploring attention and student self regulatory behaviour.
Keywords:
attention and self-regulated learning,
eye tracking metrics,
e-learning,
higher education,
eye tracking,
stimulated recall interviews
Conference:
ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29 Nov - 2 Dec, 2012.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Attention
Citation:
Persaud
N and
Eliot
M
(2012). Research in Progress: Investigating the Intersections of Attention and Self-Regulated Learning through Stimulated Recall and Student’s Eye-Tracking Behaviour.
Conference Abstract:
ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2012.208.00096
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Received:
25 Oct 2012;
Published Online:
07 Nov 2012.
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Correspondence:
Mrs. Nayadin Persaud, Central Queensland University, Noosa, Australia, n.persaud@cqu.edu.au