Teachers observe the activities of pupils, and know the types and features of them. However, the observations must be subjective. It is difficult to generalize the knowledge of a teacher. This paper proposes a method to make subjective and quantative observations of pupils about their reading aloud and problem solving activities, the implementation of the method, and the observation results of the implemented reading activity observation system. About read aloud activities and the question answering activities, the implementation observes the timing of key operations and the process of gazing positions. To measure the reading ability, the text read and the questions to measure the level of understanding are prepared. The prepared text and questions are targeted to the third year of Japanese primary school. In the third year of a primary school, reading difficulties are manifested. The implementation generates many kinds of easy-to understand reports. The knowledge acquired from the observations are easy to generalize. This paper shows the method, the implementation, and the observation results. CCS Concepts • Applied computing → Education → Computer-assisted instruction.
There are many pupils with reading difficulty in Japanese schools. The dyslexia is the disability about reading and writing texts. We use Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana characters in Japanese sentences. We propose the Japanese text presentation system that eases the difficulties about reading Japanese texts with or without dyslexia. The kanji is an ideograph. The hiragana and the katakana are phonograms. The reading difficulties include 2 types. One is a difficulty about reading the kanji. Another is the difficulty about tracing the reading sequence. This paper proposes a system that presents the Japanese sentences with suitable presentation method for each pupil with reading difficulties. The main function of the proposed system is 3 levels of highlighting/masking that are independently controlled. The highlighting only is not enough to prevent the error about the reading sequence of character chunks. The 3 level highlighting/masking enables to adapt the presentation to wide varieties of reading difficulties. The proposed system also proposes the function to measure the reading ability of the pupil with recording their operations. This paper proposes the plan and the implementation of the Japanese text presentation system.
Recently, we can use cheap and easy to use eye gazing measurement tools. However, these tools generate large amount of data that represent the gazing points. This paper proposes a method to analyze the eye gazing data on reading aloud and problem solving activities. The proposed method finds irregular pupils. The algorithm and the experimental results are proposed.
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