Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education (한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육)

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Comparative Analysis of Eye Movement on Performing Biology Classification Task between the Scientifically Gifted and General Elementary Students

생물분류과정에서 과학영재학생과 일반학생의 안구운동 비교 분석

  • Received : 2015.02.17
  • Accepted : 2015.02.26
  • Published : 2015.02.28
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the differences in eye movement pattern shown in shown in classification process between the scientifically gifted and general students in elementary schools. The subjects for the research consisted of 16 gifted students in special education center for the gifted at Seoul National University of Education and 22 general students at G elementary schools. The tasks consisted of four hierarchical biology classification tasks and one non-hierarchical tasks. SMI's Eye Tracker (iView $X^{TM}$ RED) was used to collect eye movement data while the Begaze software analyzed the task performing process and eye movements. The findings of this study were twofold. First, there was a significant difference in students' fixation duration by students' academic achievement level. Gifted students spent little time on scanning details and found the features successfully. Second, the process of the classification is different by students' academic achievement. General students spent more time to gaze the salient features not relevant features. They had a difficulty to find the element to classify.

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