Teaching through their eyes: effects on optometry teachers' adaptivity and students' learning when teachers see students' gaze.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive teacher support fosters effective learning in one-to-one teaching sessions, which are a common way of learning complex visual tasks in the health sciences. Adaptive support is tailored to student needs, and this is difficult in complex visual tasks as visual problem-solving processes are covert and thus cannot be directly observed by the teacher. Eye-tracking apparatus can measure covert processes and make them visible in gaze displays: visualizations of where a student looks while executing a task. We investigate whether live dynamic gaze displays help teachers in being more adaptive to students' needs when teaching optical coherence tomography interpretation in one-to-one teaching sessions and whether this fosters learning. Forty-nine students and 10 teachers participated in a o

SUBMITTER: Korteland RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11549187 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature