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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2016.36.4.0705

An Analysis of Elementary Students' Attention Characteristics through Attention Test and the Eye Tracking on Real Science Classes  

Shin, Won-Sub (Seoul National University of Education)
Shin, Dong-Hoon (Seoul National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.36, no.4, 2016 , pp. 705-715 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to analyze elementary students' attention characteristics through attention test and eye tracking on real science classes. The SMI's ETG(eye tracker glasses) mobile eye tracker was used to analyze the attention process of elementary students'. The sampling rate of the ETG is 30Hz. The participants of attention test were elementary 155 6th-grade elementary students and the participants for the eye-tracker were six 6th-grade male students. The eye movements were analyzed using the 'BeGaze Mobile Video Analysis Package' program. The results of this research are as follows. First, the attention test results of elementary students showed high correlation between selective attention and sustained attention (.85) and low correlation between selective attention and self-regulation (.32). Second, the attention types of elementary students were divided into four; attention, inattention, easygoing and hasty. Third, elementary students' attention were divided into top-down, bottom-up, default mode network through analysis of elementary students′ eye-movements during real science classes. Also their attention shift occurred frequently due to various reasons in real class situation. There were three reasons that made elementary students fail to handle knowledge-dependent top-down attention; 1) the cognitive failure of target caused by failing to focus attention, 2) the absence of prior knowledge on target object, 3) the analogical failure of prior knowledge. Finally, elementary students' attention process were schematized based on the analysis of students' eye movements and attention test. This research is expected to be utilized as basic data for developing effective teaching strategies, teaching-learning models and instructional materials.
Keywords
elementary science class; mobile eye tracker; attention process; top-down attention; bottom-up attention; DMN(default mode network);
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