Eye Tracking for the Chemistry Education Researcher

Description

The idea for an ACS symposium series for eye tracking started to form in the summer of 2015. Each of the editors had experience with eye tracking from our dissertation research and upon further discussion, discovered they all had the same questions: What type of eye tracker should be used? What types of research questions can eye tracking answer? What should be considered concerning experimental design? How could the results be analyzed in a meaningful way? With no clear help from the existing chemistry education research (CER) literature, the editors had to expand their reading to the fields of psychology, consumer analysis, and product design to find suitable answers. When they spoke with chemistry education researchers who were interested in eye tracking, they discovered these same questions were prevalent among them as well; and often, they did not even know where to start. At that point, they decided that an eye-tracking guidebook aimed at chemistry education researchers could be a valuable resource. This book is not intended to be a review of eye tracking in CER literature; rather, it is meant to be a tool to help answer the same questions the editors had when they started out in the field. The editors also hope that those with some experience in eye tracking will find among these pages ideas they had not considered applying to their research, but that will be valuable to them moving forward. Content: Preface1. Eye Tracking as a Research Tool: An Introduction2. Eye Tracking in Chemistry Education Research: Study Logistics3. What They See Impacts the Data You Get: Selection and Design of Visual Stimuli4. Using Fixations To Measure Attention5. Sequence Analysis: Use of Scanpath Patterns for Analysis of Students' Problem-Solving Strategies6. Advanced Methods for Processing and Analyzing Eye-Tracking Data Using R7. Using Multiple Psychophysiological Techniques To Triangulate the Results of Eye-Tracking Data8. Beyond Gaze Data: Pupillometry as an Additional Data Source in Eye Tracking9. Coupling Eye Tracking with Verbal Articulation in the Evaluation of Assessment Materials Containing Visual Representations10. Studying the Language of Organic Chemistry: Visual Processing and Practical Considerations for Eye-Tracking Research in Structural NotationEditors' BiographiesAuthor IndexSubject Index