Eyetracking or a piece of paper in didactic research
Eyetracking or a piece of paper in didactic research

Summary/Abstract: The topic of control and assessment is one of the most important fields of didactic knowledge. Teachers usually use traditional methods of verifying knowledge, which are oral, written, and practical tests. Despite the fact that using the above-mentioned methods is easy, they are burdened with a high dose of subjectivism, being often “intuitive”. Contrary to popular beliefs classical methods also have limited possibilities of making the assessment of school achievement. Due to dynamic development of electronics and IT tools new, non-invasive methods of monitoring psycho-physical parameters appeared, that is eyetracking, which enables to track the path of solving the task which allows a precise analysis of a way of reaching given results by the student. The difficulties which students face while doing a given task are too rarely taken into consideration. That is why the ways of students’ thinking should be studied through tracking their eyesight while doing the task. Only eyetracking studies allow us to optimize the process of learning, especially the individualization of the process.

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